Material Artifacts: Items, Things, Devices

The article attempts to understand such concepts as object, thing, a device from the perspective of philosophy and culture. The authors consider the object world of a person through the notion of a material artifact, which, in turn, can be represented as an object, device, or thing. They argue that artifacts – devices unify the object world of a person, and capture him in the world of Gestеll. Artifacts-things make it possible to preserve the uniqueness of the world, open up a multi-layered culture to a person, introducing the meanings of the past to him, the past demanded by the present, connected with it and open into the future.