They might just enable us to say that some lines were longer than others, but they would leave Geometry in a position no better than that of the Hedonical Calculus, in which we depend on a purely subjective measure.
Kant adopted a middle course: he asserted absolute space, but regarded it as purely subjective.
Without this relation, cognition would be a purely subjective phenomenon; science would have no object; knowledge would be had, but there would be nothing known.
The appearance of knowing is never offered to us as a purely subjective fact; that is to say, when we think we know, we think we know something either within or without us, according to the matters which occupy us.
Hence the idea of causality has a purely subjective significance, not the objective one which we ascribe to it.
The Absolute Idealists hold that the notion we have of external things is purely subjective, having no external counterpart, no corresponding outward reality.
It has a transitive significance, and cannot be made to denote a purely subjective process.
Here also, all having for so long been assumed to be purely objective, the temptation now arises to consider it all as purely subjective.
The idea of the existence or possibility of an external object does not enter into the idea of the sensation as purely subjective, and without this indispensable condition there can be no evidence.
The first method seems the more rigorous, but it can be applied only to mathematics, which is a purely subjective science.
It makes moral and religious truth to be a purely subjective thing--a matter of private opinion--having no objective reality independently of men's opinions regarding it.
There are cases also where a percipient who has had an apparition of a friend shortly after that friend's known death has had veridical hallucinations at other times, and has never had any hallucination of purely subjective origin.
Vaihinger contends[464] that the reason why Kant does not even attempt to argue in support of the principle, that the a priori must be purely subjective, is that he accepts it as self-evident.
Though a quality or content, it is purely subjective, depending upon the nature of our sensibility.
Both partial and infinite space are of mental origin; sensation, as such, is non-spatial, purely subjective.
The object which affects the mind is independently real; the immediate object of the intuition is a sense-content, which Kant, following the universally accepted view of his time, regards as purely subjective.
It seems a case where, in order to see, you musn’t look, lest looking make what is purely subjectivean object!
To me this sensation seemed to be purely subjective; it was constant.
I think that in a great number of cases this sensation is purely subjective, but--as with cool breezes--it does not always seem to be so.
I have not been able to settle with certitude, if this sensation be purely subjective, or if an element of real objectivity be blended with it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purely subjective" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
