 But first, note that Anscombe distinguished sharply between two senses of the word “object” – one of which is material (“There are ten objects on the bowling lane”), while the other is intentional (“Immortality was the object of his desire”), which otherwise needn’t exist at all. An intentional object is given by a word or phrase which gives a description under which it is such (IOS, 9). She insists that neither sense of the word “object” is deviant nor philosophically uninteresting, but they are easily confused with each other.