jamikes.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "1Z" <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
> To: "Everything List" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 12:14 PM
> Subject: Re: evidence blindness
>
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> >
> >
> > Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote:
> >
> > > a) The belief in a fictional 'objective view'. This is a view that is
> > > never had by anyone.
> >
> Peter replied:
> > I don't think the "view" metaphior is very helpful.
> > There are more or less objective beliefs. What is
> > subjective about "2+2=4" ?
>
> JM:
> everything.
> First you had to learn and subjectively accept the meaning of the sign '+'
> and then the sign '=' without which subjective input you would consider 2
> plus 2 as 22 - unless you are also missing the personally and subjectively
> absorbed meaning of a "twoness" ,
> in which case you can frame the expression as an abstract picture.
Learning hwat 2+2=4 means , means learnig what everyone
*else* means by it. Subjectivity doens't stop me thinking
2+2=22. It might even make me.
"Subjective" does *not* mean "performed by a subject"
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Received on Sun Aug 27 2006 - 17:22:41 PDT