All 28 Uses
subjective
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- Or is it subjective, existing only in the observer?†
Part 3subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- On the other hand, if Quality is subjective, existing only in the observer, then this Quality that you make so much of is just a fancy name for whatever you like.†
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- If he accepted the other premise that Quality was subjective, he was impaled on the other horn.†
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- Either Quality is objective or subjective, therefore he was impaled no matter how he answered.†
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- Or, he could take the right horn, and refute the idea that subjectivity implies "anything you like."†
Part 3 *subjectivity = the quality or degree of being influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- Or he could go between the horns and deny that subjectivity and objectivity are the only choices.†
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- Phaedrus could simply have said, "The attempt to classify Quality as subjective or objective is an attempt to define it.†
Part 3subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one's work so as to obtain an objective, true, picture of reality.†
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- When he said Quality was subjective, to them he was just saying Quality is imaginary and could therefore be disregarded in any serious consideration of reality.†
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- He then went on with other scientific concepts, one by one, showing how they could not possibly exist independently of subjective considerations.†
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- If subjectivity is eliminated as unimportant, he said, then the entire body of science must be eliminated with it.†
Part 3subjectivity = the quality or degree of being influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- At this point the whole subjective horn of the dilemma looked almost as uninspiring as the objective one.†
Part 3subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- What the classical formalists meant by the objection "Quality is just what you like" was that this subjective, undefined "quality" he was teaching was just romantic surface appeal.†
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- The knife of subjectivity-and-objectivity had cut Quality in two and killed it as a working concept.†
Part 3subjectivity = the quality or degree of being influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- And by God, it wasn't subjective or objective either, it was beyond both of those categories.†
Part 3subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- Actually this whole dilemma of subjectivity-objectivity, of mind-matter, with relationship to Quality was unfair.†
Part 3subjectivity = the quality or degree of being influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- Quality is not subjective, he said.†
Part 3subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- And finally: Phaedrus, following a path that to his knowledge had never been taken before in the history of Western thought, went straight between the horns of the subjectivity-objectivity dilemma and said Quality is neither a part of mind, nor is it a part of matter.†
Part 3subjectivity = the quality or degree of being influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- This is what led him at first to think that maybe Quality is all subjective.†
Part 3subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- But subjective pleasure wasn't what he meant by Quality either.†
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- Quality decreases subjectivity.†
Part 3subjectivity = the quality or degree of being influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- Quality is opposed to subjectivity.†
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- Squares, he said, because of their prejudices toward intellectuality usually regard Quality, the preintellectual reality, as unimportant, a mere uneventful transition period between objective reality and subjective perception of it.†
Part 3subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- Absolute Mind was independent too, both of objectivity and subjectivity.†
Part 3subjectivity = the quality or degree of being influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- The preselection of facts is not based on subjective, capricious "whatever you like" but on Quality, which is reality itself.†
Part 3subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- To leave the impression in the scientific world that the source of all scientific reality is merely a subjective, capricious harmony is to solve problems of epistemology while leaving an unfinished edge at the border of metaphysics that makes the epistemology unacceptable.†
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- But we know from Phaedrus' metaphysics that the harmony Poincaré talked about is not subjective.†
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- Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(subjective) influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)Subjective is often contrasted to objective--meaning based upon fact without the influence of personal feelings or preferences.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In grammar, subjective can refer to a noun or pronoun inflection that indicates the relationship between terms in a sentence. For example, in "She ran home," she is the subject of the verb ran and the sentence is in the subjective (aka nominative) case.