And what gives negation its subjective character is precisely this, that in the discovery of a replacement it takes account only of the replaced, and is not concerned with what replaces.
The idea implies on the subjective side a preference, on the objective side a substitution, and is nothing else but a combination of, or rather an interference between, this feeling of preference and this idea of substitution.
Men are seldom zealous for an idea in which they do not perceive some reflection of themselves, in which they have not embarked some portion of their individuality, or which they cannot connect with some subjective purpose of their own.
But by placing the necessity of intolerance on the simple ground of religious error, and in directing it against the Church which they themselves had abandoned, they introduced a purely subjective test, and a purely revolutionary system.
It is now understood that conceivably only in thesubjective world, and in theory and the imagination, do we deal with identically similar units, and with absolutely commensurable quantities.
Thus there is both an objective rhythm, which actually exists as rhythm, and a subjective rhythm, which is only the feeling of regularity resulting from a natural tendency of the mind to 'organize' any irregularity that we meet.
A converse phenomenon of the subjective introduction of stress into a series of identical tones at equal intervals is the subjective 'organization' of a series of irregular beats.
In a series of identical equidistant stresses, those which coincide with the pulse of attention seem the stronger: this is what is called subjective rhythm.
The processes of the subjective organization of rhythm may best be explained under the heads of coördination, syncopation, and substitution.
A volume of very subjective poems concludes this long list; among the dramas are at least three of heroic proportion and length.
Hello, less subjective than Newman, less lyric though a "son of thunder," counted but the harp of his faith.
Thus, while it might be granted that the subjective mind is a vicious abstraction, it does not follow that Dewey's particular interpretation of the function of inference is correct.
It is, in fact, a mere accident that inference and awareness (in the subjective sense) should both be called knowledge.
It is not to be assumed at the start, as the subjective idealists assume, that the nature of the individual consciousness is known.
The argument is directed against that mode of explaining the difference between the psychical and the physical which employs a subjective mind or 'knower' as the container of the merely subjectiveaspects of reality.
It is not to be supposed for a moment that by 'thought' is here meant the activity of a merelysubjective knower.
Granting that the subjective knower of the older epistemology should be dismissed from philosophy, it does not follow that Dewey's special interpretation of the function of reflection is the only substitute.
But modern psychological theory, Dewey believes, tends to shut thought in to the contemplation of its ownsubjective states, and thus gives it an extra-experiential status.
The problem was an inheritance fromsubjective idealism.
Dewey's purpose, though not well stated, seems to be the complete rejection of the notion of knowledge as awareness, or of the subjective knower.
The movement of judgment is objective and universal, notsubjective and psychological.
This is the root-paralogism of all idealisms, whethersubjective or objective, psychological or epistemological.
But, on the other hand, if meaning is given to thought, as a part of its data, the self merely reproduces in a subjective experience the thought which exists objectively in the eternal mind.
Dewey does, indeed, deal effectively with thesubjective ego, and with representative perceptionism.
It is the best realization objectively of Kant's subjective principles that has yet been given.
Helen's excitement deepened, and she was sensible it needed all the subjective support, all the indirect flattery, with which the fact of his deformity supplied her self-love to prevent her standing in awe of him.
And all this, we now look at, determined the special nature of my attempt at subjective support and consolation.
The intensive or subjective development of the communal principle does, as a matter of fact, take place in all growing communities, but it is largely unconscious.
Progress in personal development requires the individual to pass from objective heterocratic to subjective autocratic or self-regulative ethical life.
But two thousand years of philosophic study and evolution drove philosophy into the absurd positions of absolute subjective idealism on the one hand and sensationalism and absolute materialism on the other.
Social life and social order are objective expressions of a reality of which psychic nature is the subjective and therefore deeper reality.
Similarly physical and psychical life are to be conceived as profoundly interrelated, being respectively objective and subjective expressions of a reality incapable of separate interpretation.
Personality, expressing and realizing itself in communal and individual life, in objective and subjective forms, is at once the cause and the goal of progress.
Such slight exercise should not cause any subjective symptoms, either dyspnea, palpitation or chest pain.
S2 = Sensation, a subjective reviving of the sensation itself.
A subjective writer is one whose own personality, point of view, feeling, is insistent in what he writes.
In general does it seem to yousubjective or objective in method?
In my own recent experience there occurred a very clear and wholly unexpected subjective sense of smell when reading of an experiment with frogs which recalled the distinctive odor of slimy water.
This is only to say that the affective as well as the representative aspect of any conscious state is unique for each subjective center of interest.
One does not intuitively know the subjective process of blueness, in looking at the sky; one knows the sky in that sense, but the process only conceptually, by reflection.
And that it can and does mean it when the object is a subjective state is no more than the fact that, on Bergson’s own showing, such states are symbolized.
It is thus only so far as conceptual that subjective processes can be objects of knowledge, or, in short, be known.
Finally, it can be true that homogeneity is absence of quality only on the Bergsonian assumptions that quality is exclusively subjective, that homogeneity is exclusively objective, and that only the subjective is positive.
The predicaments into which philosophy falls in reasoning conceptually (and there is no other reasoning) about the subjective “world,” are due.
Perry’s analysis of subjective privacy, in Chapter XII of Present Philosophical Tendencies.
If no logical reason impugns the validity of conceptual knowledge of subjective states, no more does the pragmatic test discredit such knowledge.
Time that has passed is an objective thing, and is representable by space; time passing is a subjective process, and is not representable.
Therefore uneasiness about this incongruity, the very motive of intuitionism, presupposes first the sharpest conceptual treatment of the subjective “world,” and then the flagrant reification of the resulting abstractions.
Numerical multiplicity is distinct and objective, given or thought in space; subjective variousness is indistinct and compenetrating.
It comes to this, at least, if to be subjective is compatible with being known in any sense, with being contained within consciousness at all.
Biological reviews have displayed in marked degree the subjective personal element.
It is great and it is the intelligence and the ego, and it is the subjective seat of the various properties of elements.
And as no objective sacrifice can do without the Riks, being principally dependent on them, so the subjective sacrifices for acquiring true knowledge can never do without prayerfulness, which, I imagine, is represented as the Riks.
In the subjective sacrifice the acquisition of true knowledge, life and mind are as necessary as the mantras from the Sama and the Yajur Vedas in an objective one.
Written by an Oriental people and clothed in an Oriental dress, the Old Testament does not contain objective records, but subjective history written and incorporated for specific purposes.
The piety for which they strove so earnestly and zealously was, in more than one respect, neither truly evangelical nor soundly Lutheran, but of a legalistic and subjective nature.
The greatness of the work lies in its breadth (subjective more than objective), its panoramic view of English country life of the refined type, its rich garner of wisdom concerning human motive and action.
His detail is thus quite as much subjective as external.
The creed implicit in such work deems that life is stirring and worth while, and that it is a weakness to repine and waste time, to be too subjective when so much on earth is objectively alluring.
There is little or nothing in Smollett of the firm-knit texture and subjective analysis of the moderns.
He is aware that life is more than food--that it is a subjective state quite as much as an objective reality.
In that extraordinary work, the philosopher of evolution traced the origin of all mental powers and faculties by slow gradations from the very simplest subjective elements.
In some cases a triviality of thought, the everyday wisdom that is too dull not to seem calm and disinterested, comes to represent the artistic condition in which the subjective side has quite sunk out of sight.
He detects in the stroke of a chisel and the lines of a graving tool subjective beauties which appear to be hidden from the great majority of Western dilettanti.
The true lyric ode is subjective too; but then it delights to present things as actually existing and visible, although associated with the past, or coloured highly by the subject of the ode itself.
You will observe in him an oscillation between the objective poetry of the ancients and the subjective mood of the moderns.
In confusing this double-sided nature of the objective phenomenon “lies the main error of all materialism and of all subjective idealism.
