ABSTARCT

When people go shopping, they enter a building. But the shop cannot be identified with the building, because it would remain the same shop if it moved to another building or if it became an e-store. Daniel Korman [2019] uses these two observations to argue that establishments are immaterial objects. However, all that follows is that establishments are not buildings. I argue that establishments are organisations or corporate agents that are constituted by people. This entails that they are material objects. Korman’s observations can be accommodated in terms of the further observation that corporate agents can but need not own or rent buildings.

抽象

当人们去购物时，他们进入一栋建筑物。但是这家商店无法与建筑物识别，因为如果它搬到另一栋建筑物或变成一家电子商店，它仍将是原来的商店。Daniel Korman [2019] 使用这两个观察结果来论证机构是非物质对象。然而，随之而来的是机构不是建筑物。我认为机构是由人组成的组织或公司代理。这意味着它们是物质对象。Korman 的观察可以通过进一步观察得到满足，即公司代理人可以但不需要拥有或租赁建筑物。