Hume a subjectivist and an objectivist?
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Hume a subjectivist and an objectivist?
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Re: Hume a subjectivist and an objectivist?
However at some point whatever is subjective becomes normative and if there is lasting common consensus, that becomes inter-subjective, thus is in a way 'objective' to a degree in one sense.
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Re: Hume a subjectivist and an objectivist?
Hume is worried about that classic question: "What we can know?", and I see this as radically objective, that is, our knowledge as humans is relied on all experience we have accumulated and repetedly comproved. Maybe it can be frustrating and apparently subjectivist because it's based only in what we can grasp based on habits. We are not grasping the truth.
So I can say x about my experience and you can say y, but what he would do in this case is underline that this is the moment to find a more definitive relation of cause and effect, because if I don't admit that is just a relation based on experience, I can start building a metaphysical explanation as if my experience applies to everything. Won't this be a subjectivism, with "ism", a personal delirium raised to the truth status?
So empiricism tries to find objective knowledge as well as rationalism, but in a more safe way.
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Re: Hume a subjectivist and an objectivist?
see:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rati ... mpiricism/
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