> >That's intersubjectivity, not objectivity.
>
> Main Entry: intersubjective
> Function: adjective
> Date: 1899
> 1 : involving or occurring between separate conscious minds
> <intersubjective communication>
> 2 : accessible to or capable of being established for two or more
> subjects : OBJECTIVE
>
> - intersubjectivity- noun
>
> Are you sure?
>
This definition is pre-existentialism and pre-phenomenology.
Intersubjective phenomena are those agreed upon by two or more
subjects (observers) and belong to the realm of meaning; objective
phenomena are observer-independent (see Kant's noumena) and
belong to the realm of brute being (being w/o meaning). We have
yet to apprehend an objective phenomenon, and by definition will
never do so; we perceive our subjective and sense-dependent
hermeneutic interpretations of them.
> **************************************
> Wade T. Smith
> morbius@channel1.com
> wade_smith@harvard.edu
> **************************************