The maximum number of hits for any of those words was 16. That does not seem very big. If we want to contrast it with any particular view, I would much rather get a clear statement from Nicola of how he would characterize his position. There are some issues on which I agree with Nicola, and some on which I don't. I would like to get a very clear summary of exactly which points we agree on and which we disagree on.
Processes are fundamental.
I'll dig up the exact passage from Ramsey's book, scan it in, and send it to the SUO list. It seems to me that the word 'can' here is equivocal. Fundamentally, everything is a process. But for different time scales, some processes move so slowly that it is convenient to use object-talk to refer to them. I make statements like that when I am in one of my more excited moods.