Puzzles around the manipulation of human-scale objects: Sam Kabo-Ashwell talks here about how he took the term from a philosopher – apparently J.L. Austin?
“But then we have to ask, of course, what this class comprises. We are given, as examples, ‘familiar objects’–chairs, tables, pictures, books, flowers, pens, cigarettes; the expression ‘material thing’ is not here (or anywhere else in Ayer’s text) further defined. But does the ordinary man believe that what he perceives is (always) something like furniture, or like these other ‘familiar objects’—moderate-sized specimens of dry goods?” though he’s using it in a different sense.
Sense and Sensibilia, pg. 8 according to Reddit