blobject

English

Etymology

Blend of blob +‎ object

Noun

blobject (plural blobjects)

1. A designed product, often a household object, distinguished by smooth flowing curves, bright colours, and an absence of sharp edges.
2. (metaphysics, monism) The entire universe viewed as a single entity featuring internal variability but not containing discrete parts.
   • 2000, Terry Horgan, Matjaž Potrč, “Blobjectivism and indirect correspondence”, in Facta Philosophica, page 249:

     1. There really is just one concrete particular, viz., the whole universe (the blobject).
     2. The blobject has enormous spatiotemporal structural complexity, and enormous local variability, even though it does not have any genuine parts.

   • 2016 February 26, Daniel Korman, “Ordinary Objects”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy‎^[1]:

     But nihilism is also compatible with existence monism—the thesis that there is a single, all-encompassing simple (the cosmos, a.k.a. “the blobject”)—as well as the extreme nihilist thesis that there are no objects whatsoever.

   • 2016, Uriah Kriegel, “Brentano’s Latter-day Monism”, in Brentano Studien, page 70:

     Brentano’s universe […] like this ball it does not host any independent things or objects, but instead seems to be a single unitary ‘blobject’ that simply exhibits a certain (spatial and temporal) qualitative structure.