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An object's function is not a physical property, it is an abstraction. When we say that something has a particular function we are saying what use we intend to make of that object. It is our thought, it is not an inherent property of the object. Let us say for example that I own a knife. Its function is to chop vegetables, since that is what I do with it. However, another person might say that the function of that knife is to cut the throat of his enemies, because that is what he intends to do with it. Another person might say that its function is to carve wood. Its actual physical properties include a sharp edge. The sharp edge is a property, but the use to which that sharp edge is put depends upon the object's owner.

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