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How does Object Oriented Ontology identify what counts as an object?

As I understand it, Object Oriented Ontology treats actual and virtual objects, such as tables and the concept of marriage, respectively, as objects. However I am unsure why we would not say that the table is not an object but rather there are four legs and a slab of wood that are objects. Is it that the constituents of objects overlap?
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Any region of matter can be granted objecthood. The table plus the chairs under it could all be considered a single object. The table plus the chairs under it plus the room they are in could be considered a single object. "Table" and "leg" and "slab of wood" are *essences* - our idea of what those things are - which we apply to regions of matter when we make assumptions like "This object is *this specific object*."

See Husserl's part-whole theory.