Let us consider the example proposed by the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington. On the one hand, there is the table as it appears to us in phenomenal experience, an object familiar and intimate, integrated into the fabric of our everyday life. On the other, there is the physical table, understood as that which exists in itself beyond appearance: a configuration of atoms, electrons, and particles described by the theoretical framework of quantum mechanics. In the scientific image of the thing, Eddington observes, we no longer find the table as such, in its unity and identity. There is no correspondence between the stable, colored, and tangible table we perceive and the swarm of moving particles that physics reveals as its “true” composition.