Teemu Arina is talking about 'social objects'. On John Searle's theory "social objects are higher order objects whose inferiora are constituted by physical objects, which account for their apparent concreteness." The use of physical objects seems to be optional; "there is a great number of social objects - complex entities such as states, universities or corporations - which don't seem to have any obvious physical realization." We need, on my view, to understand that social objects - and therefore their physical counterparts - are fictions, no matter how real they may seem. See also Barry Smith talking about social objects and reductionism - which, I would take it, has the consequence of making the 'objects' of our perception fictions as well - or, to take Gibson, as real as anything else we think is real.
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