[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "1Z" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Everything List" <everything-list@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 12:14 PM > Subject: Re: evidence blindness > > > > > > > > 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" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
