Chairs are also brought up in philosophical debacles: http://steve-patterson.com/no-chairs-do-not-exist/ http://steve-patterson.com/no-chairs-do-not-exist/ The

Chairs are also brought up in philosophical debacles: http://steve-patterson.com/no-chairs-do-not-exist/ http://steve-patterson.com/no-chairs-do-not-exist/ The point seems to be close to what you describe, but not entirely: "chair" is a human-made label, assigned to physical objects in the real world, but it's too abstract. Lots of objects resembling a chair or named "chair" exist, each with their own peculiarities, features, identity, but that's just humans going around, marking stuff with an invisible label maker.