BETA has this whole philosophical spiel about concepts and phenomena. The idea being that classes are patterns, really – describe concepts – and objects are the actual phenomena, the real things.
This distinction is one of the points where I’ve disagreed with them… The point is that concepts are phenomena too. Maybe I should take it out, because it’s a distraction for most people, but it is a point that Ole [Lehrmann Madsen] needs to hear.