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Hi, Thanks very much to all of you.. Bill, Upon reading your answer I thought you would end by saying a chair does NOT have intrinsic value but you state the opposite... Could you explain? In fact, to clarify, what I would really like to convery is this. ( I am imagining the chair is a wooden chair...

Hi all, This is my first post :) I have been wondering this for some time. My question may be badly formuated, so apologies! Is there a word to differenciate two objects, one which is 'natural' and the other which has been constructed. i.e wood and chair? Although wood has intrinsic existence, a ch...