The public space includes all else, be it spoken or written text, recent texts, or texts that are decades or centuries old, statues, images, objects. What we see are the properties of those objects, and their appearance can change depending on how they are influenced by natural and not natural properties.

Include referring

When we say that is a chair, then the word chair refers to the object that is a chair, because the object a word refers to is pretty much standardized and known to everybody. This facilitates communication. It is in essence relatively easy to figure out if the word you use in a conversation means the same for both persons. If it refers to the same object, you can point to that object and ask the other person is this what you mean, what you refer to, when you say chair.

There are so many words we currently use that it is practically not possible to check all for them, to see if you refer to the same object, combination of objects, properties and so on. Meanings of words are pretty much standardized. That is what makes them useful. If meanings of words would change from person to person, then communication would become very difficult.

Include 'spaces'

Part 1 : Objects and Properties

1. Properties

Natural properties are things like climate, light, temperature and material properties, as well as a combination of those properties.

Not-natural properties are things like the place where objects are placed, the extra information objects hold, like for example. A book, things appointed by humans.

For the moment these terms will be used as they are easily explainable to a lot of people. On the one side you have the non-human appointed properties and influences, for example, climate, sun light, temperature, and particular material properties.

On the other side you have the properties appointed and defined by humans, like the shape of an object. The problem is that in both categories you will find properties that are the same, or so it appears.

for example. A prehistoric stone ax. At the properties of the ax man change nothing, at the properties of the stone and the wood a human can change nothing. But we can change the shape of the ax.

2. Objects

A compound object is an object that exists and is composed out of multiple objects, but that most of the time is seen as one single object. Heidegger gave a very interesting lecture about this is in the 1920's, where he discussed the fact that we see a lot of objects around us only as singular objects, and not all the objects out of which they are composed.

If one sees a chair, then that chair is a compound object, even if for certain chair designs this is not very clear. But a classic chair exists as a compound of multiple objects: for example. the back rest, the seat, the screws, the glue, the nails.