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Is subjectivity just a matter of context?
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RE: Is subjectivity just a matter of context?
(May 11, 2014 at 10:08 am)Confused Ape Wrote: So, what is objectively real about the chair? Our experience of it as a solid object or the fact that it's mostly empty space?

Both. "It is solid" can be considered a subjective statement about how you experience it, but remember that "subejctive" is merely context-dependence. A shrimp might percieve a chair differently, but with the correct context (the species of animal doing the speaking), that can be translated into an objective statement, so we can still investigate its accuracy. It's no different from the statement "I was here" in the OP example.
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RE: Is subjectivity just a matter of context? - by Coffee Jesus - May 11, 2014 at 10:27 am

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