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Objectivists about a realm, in philosophy, hold that that realm is part of objective reality, that it is not dependent on the existence of mental subjects. Subjectivists about a realm hold that that realm is part of subjective reality, that it is dependent on the existence of mental subjects.
Consider the (apparent) fact that murder is wrong. Ethical objectivists hold that the fact that murder is wrong is objective. Ethical subjectivists hold that the (apparent) fact that murder is wrong is subjective, perhaps adding that the claim ‘murder is wrong’ is not a statement of objective fact, but merely an expression of mental subjects\' emotion, of their aversion to murder. So the (apparent) fact that murder is wrong is dependent on the existence of mental subjects.
Idealists are subjectivists about physical objects. For they hold that physical objects are ideas in the mind and, therefore, mind dependent. AJ
See also emotivism; idealism. |
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