>On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Nathaniel Hall wrote:
>> What I mean by implictly is that in order to discover something it must
>> be out there to be discovered. That is an objective universe,( which is
>> the foundation of objectivism).
>Is it conceivable that there could, in some weird Bizzarro-Universe, be a
>possible reality in which there were things that could be discovered
>without their identities being absolute outside of the observer? (A not
>always = A?)
>Is such a universe conceivable?
>-Prof. Tim
List,
Some have been implying that things are not objective in that they are
"dependent arisings" (was that on this list)? To imply that two dependent
objects can infer a third which is neither and/or both is not an objective
perspective. "Ego", for example has been described as a self-construct, or
illusion. If this is so, then two components of ego would combine to form a
subjective third manifestation (a existent self and a being, for example,
manifest as either one or the other--uncertainty--but not both). Likewise,
entropy and growth have been proposed as dependent arisings...stability
manifesting somewhere inbetween--not as an objective truth but as a
subjective manifestation of two dependent forces.
There is also that which occurrs on the border between chaos and order.
Which either states that both chaos and order are subjective states--or that
they are objective states and what occurs on the border is subjective.
Circularity is not objective--these "strange loops" create the illusion of
something which is present (existent) but which is a manifestation of
distinct and separate parts which only appear to form an objective whole.
There are gestaults and essences. Even statistics involves disproving the
objective reality of chance--that is the certainty that two things have no
relationship.
What is needed is a definition of "objective". I propose: "That which
derrives from a prime cause, predicts a prime effect, or is reducable to
cause and effect." Then, I would say that "yes" everything is objective;
but, also subjectively so.
Brett
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