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Thursday, 11 July 2019
Objective being presents as reliably self-manifesting, that is, present there, independent of you; preceding you, accompanying you and bound to be there after you have vanished, regardless of what position you take towards it, reverence, respect or doubt or any variant. However the suspicion remains that whatever objective being is, and whatever you might happen to be, the latter is prior to the former; it is what it is for you and only for you. I other words it is doubtful in such a way as devolves on you to judge. In this sense the subjective enjoys a paradoxical ontological priority relative to the objective - paradoxical because the subjective is for the most part concealed and apparently insubstantial. Granted this, epistemologically it enjoys no such precedence. What determines true knowledge? Objective knowledge has the criterion of consensus verifiability, while subjective knowledge has only what amounts to its own feelings, its notoriously unreliable sense of reality. You have no answer to this beyond noting that objective truth or reality extends no further than objective ontology; that consensus itself is as much for you as what it is consensus about.
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