> And this doesn't mean that objective reality is whatever we think it to be,
> but it does mean that our fantasies and imagination are objective, in the
> sense that they are actually occuring inside our own heads.
It's no wonder that this subject is causing so much disunity, when people
are using the same word to mean exactly opposite things. David, your
paragraph above practically *defines* subjectivity, not objectivity, at
least in the scientific sense of the word. Ie. your last sentence reads
just fine after turning "ob" into "sub":
"Our fantasies and imagination are subjective, in the sense
that they are actually occuring inside our own heads."
Evidently we're not going to get anywhere with this discussion if the
the use of words is not just miles apart but practically reversed. That
throws all pretense of reasoned argument on its head. Words are very
important, especially in a textual forum such as this. Take liberty
with their meaning and you end up with the mess that we have here.
Rich.
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