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	Important Terms in Objectivist Atheology
		Metaphysical subjectivism in some form results from the acceptance of the primacy of consciousness metaphysics and essentially amounts to solipsism, either psychological or divine.
		Just as metaphysical subjectivism is the philosophical basis of epistemological subjectivism, epistemological subjectivism is the philosophical basis of mysticism, which is the acceptance of ideational content void of evidence, proof or rational (i.e., non-contradictory) inference from perceptually available facts.
		Thus, epistemological subjectivism is opposed to the primacy of existence metaphysics.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Sparta/1019/AFE/Definitions.htm (5909 words)

	Thinking Critically about the Subjective-Objective Distinction
		Ethical subjectivism is the view that moral judgements are nothing but statements or expressions of personal opinion or feeling and thus that moral judgements cannot be supported or refuted by reason.
		Metaphysical idealism is the view that there is no reality independently of people's minds — in other words, according to metaphysical idealism, so-called "physical" things don't really exist at all.
		Metaphysical idealism was popular in philosophy in the early 1800's, and re-emerged in the late 20th century as deconstruction or post-modernism.
	instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/subjective_objective.html (3772 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Metaphysical subjectivism
		Metaphysical subjectivism is the theory that perception creates reality, and that there is no underlying, true, reality that exists independent of perception.
		This holding should not be confused with the stance that "all is illusion" or that "there is no such thing as reality." Metaphysical subjectivists hold that reality is real enough, and that physical objects do exist.
		They conceive, however, that the nature of reality as related to a given consciousness unit is created and governed by that consciouslness.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/me/Metaphysical_subjectivism (240 words)

	Buddhism and Quantum Physics: A strange parallel of two concepts of reality
		The central concepts of traditional metaphysics like being, substance, reality etc. are replaced by reduced mindsets: From now on, atoms, elementary particles, energy, fields of force, laws of nature, symmetries, etc. are considered to be the justification of the existence for anything.
		His issue is not the empirical existence of things but the metaphysical idea of a permanent duration and of a substance of circumstances: Only the idea of an own being, without participation to something else, is disapproved by Nagarjuna.
		Such interpretations originate from metaphysical approaches that have difficulties to recognize the empirical existence of objects in the world we are living in.
	www.newdualism.org /papers/C.Kohl/Buddhism-QP-Parallel.htm (5022 words)

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		Subjectivism is a philosophical tenet that accords primacy to subjective experience as fundamental of all measure and law.
		Ethical subjectivism is the meta-ethical belief that ethical sentences reduce to factual statements about the attitudes and/or conventions of individual people.
		In probability, a subjectivism stands for the belief that probabilities are simply degrees-of-belief by rational agents in a certain proposition, and which have no objective reality in and of themselves.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Metaphysical_subjectivism (839 words)

	Cartesian Roots of the Ontological Principle
		Metaphysics took a radical turn with the Scientific Revolution, and some of the questions it asked then are still relevant today.
		To be sure, Descartes’ subjectivism was not "reformed" in the manner required by Whitehead, since Descartes failed to apply adequately the objectivism implicit in his own cogito.
		By working toward a realistic metaphysics -- in line with common sense -- Whitehead is attempting to answer some of the basic questions about the nature of causality, actuality, the mental and physical poles.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2437 (2383 words)

	withallyourmind.net » The Case for Metaphysical Realism
		“…metaphysical realism is not a thesis, but rather a precondition for the whole process of public debate.
		He defined metaphysical realism as the belief that we can be objective and have knowledge because “there is an independently existing reality to which our true utterances correspond.” He only defined postmodernism as a denial of this claim, and it seems to me like the sort of a claim that postmodernists would deny.
		I hope this answers both of your questions: the metaphysic you are proposing, where meaning is ‘in’; the proposition and ‘in’ the object, rests on an inadequate understanding of meaning that ultimately rests on your substance/property metaphysic that ignores (covers over, to use Heidegger’s term) the ontological import of human context.
	withallyourmind.net /archives/2006/the-case-for-metaphysical-realism (4114 words)

	notes
		These theories, such as determinism, justificationism, subjectivism (knowledge as belief) and the method of conceptual analysis (essentialism) are shared by most philosophical schools and for this reason they are seldom in dispute.
		Metaphysical ideas such as determinism and reductionism have proved almost impossible to subject to effective criticism because discussion of them has mostly been pursued by conceptual analysis under the influence of the errors that Popper labelled 'essentialsm'.
		First, the theory of metaphysical research programs has the capacity to make metaphysical theories visible, in the same way that an improved microscope brings objects into sharp focus where previously they were either invisible or indistinct.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /beardsley/700/notes.html (3089 words)

	DOLHENTY ARCHIVE: A Brief on the Perennial Philosophy
		Subjectivism takes many forms and can range from outright universal skepticism (nothing exists at all) to qualified skepticism (something may exist but we can't know about it) to pragmatism (truth is whatever "works") to pure subjective individualism (there is my truth, your truth, and so on, but no objective truth).
		Metaphysical Materialism is the doctrine that nothing exists except matter in some form or other and all matter operates according to mechanical laws.
		The metaphysical structure of material being is explained according to the principles of ontology, by the theory of act and potency.
	radicalacademy.com /realisticviews.htm (3065 words)

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		In general, on Stroud's account, to engage in the metaphysical quest for reality is to ask about the relation between our beliefs and reality with the aim of arriving at a conclusion about which of these beliefs, if any, represent the world as it really is, as it is independently (in some sense) of us.
		The 'error theory' version of subjectivism says that in our everyday practice we do in fact believe that colours are properties of objects, in the sense that they are the grounds of the disposition objects have to produce experiences in us.
		If subjectivism is true then any explanations of the relation between objects and their properties and our experiences of colours loses the kind of intelligibility we think they have, when we ascribe colours to the objects themselves.
	www2.warwick.ac.uk /fac/soc/philosophy/staff/eilan/stroud_5.doc (3970 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": V. Brushlinsky: Carnap's ‘Elimination of Metaphysics’
		Such he declares metaphysical propositions to be, understanding by ‘metaphysical’ not only speculative metaphysics which claims knowledge on the basis of ‘pure reason’ and ‘pure intuition’ independent of experience, but also ‘metaphysics’ which is based on experience but, through special kinds of inferences, seeks to know what lies behind direct experience (‘the thing in itself’).
		But, in his words, while metaphysics is devoid of all cognitive content, it is nevertheless useful as an expression of the ‘feeling of life’ of those individuals who create metaphysical systems.
		Declaring war on all metaphysics, Carnap himself sinks into the phenomenalist type of metaphysics which asserts that the task of science is simply to provide the most convenient description of phenomena.
	www.autodidactproject.org /other/carnap3.html (1371 words)

	The Argument from Metaphysical Primacy: A Debate
		Metaphysical subjectivism is the genus of various versions of the fundamental orientation to reality which affirms that the objects of consciousness conform to the dictates of consciousness.
		It entails subjectivism because it grants metaphysical primacy to the subject in the subject-object relationship.
		A single instance of a worldview granting metaphysical primacy to the subject of awareness is sufficient to pin that worldview as affirming (at least to an extent) metaphysical subjectivism.
	www.geocities.com /katholon/DBvPM1005.htm (8085 words)

	Logophobia - Eric Voegelin on SCIENTISM - The Intercollegiate Review, Fall 1999 - Author: Michael P. Federici Eric ...
		Scientism is given the illusion of validity in the postmodern context because of the pervasive acceptance of ethical relativism (subjectivism) in both academe and the culture at large.
		The prevalence of subjectivism marks the ascendancy of the view of justice that was expressed by Thrasymachus in Plato’s Republic: "might makes right." Justice, in the classical or Christian sense, cannot flourish in a society that perceives it as a selection of competing utilitarian claims.
		The metaphysical elements of Christianity that pint toward the existence of a transcendent reality cannot be reconciled with the immanentist methods or the principles of positivism.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /federici.htm (3659 words)

	Let's Get Metaphysical: With Criticism of Lakatos and Kuhn. Rafe Champion
		On the other hand, the critical discussion of the theory and its results may lead to a change in the research programme (usually an unconscious change, as the programme is often held unconsciously, and taken for granted), or to its replacement by another programme.
		is a veritable textbook of examples of scientists in the grip of metaphysical preoccupations stumbling over and around the ideas that were required to solve their problems, inspired, blinded and distracted in turn by dreams and speculations of a metaphysical or religious nature.
		His problem here is, of course, to provide an account that avoids subjectivism and the resulting reduction of conceptual schemes to various kinds of social, material or ideological bases in the absence of a theory of autonomous ideas.
	www.the-rathouse.com /popmeta.html (1966 words)

	Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality and the Sociology of Knowledge
		The traditional set of beliefs gains a great deal of strength from the fact that many of its themes are common to schools of thought which present themselves as rivals: positivists, linguistic analysts, Marxists, existentialists, phenomenologists and structuralists all tend to labour their differences but take for granted the ideas they hold in common.
		Metaphysical ideas such as determinism and reductionism have proved almost impossible to subject to effective criticism because discussion has mostly proceeded by way of conceptual analysis, isolated from substantive problems and live issues.
		It is, moreover, often assumed that metaphysical theories are beyond the limits of rational criticism because they provide the framework of discourse so that the domain of rational criticism may be limited to areas where empirical tests can be used.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /beardsley/700/eerev.html (2446 words)

	Bruce's Rave and Rant: Logical Fallacy: Appeal to Metaphysics
		Ernst von Glasersfeld argues that metaphysics is an irrational level of philosophy and I tend to agree with him.
		I wouldn't however go to the extremes of logical positivism and suggest that metaphysics is entirely useless; it isn't, as Karl Popper explains of the atomic theory of the ancient Greeks.
		That is to say that metaphysical morals are couched in a philosophy that resists verification, and as such can only be seen to be as valid as any other metaphysical claim.
	bruceraverant.blogspot.com /2006/07/logical-fallacy-appeal-to-metaphysics.html (985 words)

	The irrefutability of metaphysical truths
		Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that concerns itself with the study of the nature of reality.
		Subjectivism asserts that knowledge is a matter of personal preference.
		Intuitively, it therefore seems obvious that anything that is deduced in metaphysics is an a priori truth that cannot be disproven, since the very notion of proof itself is based on knowledge.
	www.objectivethought.com /articles/metaphysics.html (2900 words)

	The Crisis of European Sciences
		It is a new sort of transcendental subjectivism which begins with Kant and changes into new forms in the systems of German idealism.
		Thus we can say quite correctly (broadening the meaning): it is a matter of a logic as a theory of norms and a technology with the fullest universality, to the end of attaining a universal philosophy.
		The latter, as a theory of the accomplishments necessarily carried out within subjectivity, and thus as a theory of the possibility and scope of objective knowledge, reveals the naivete of the supposed rational philosophy of nature-in-itself.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/husserl.htm (4259 words)

	Reasons To Believe: Facts For Faith Issue 1, 2000
		Philosopher Louis P. Pojman explains: “This form of moral subjectivism has a sorry consequence: It makes morality a useless concept, for, on its premises, little or no interpersonal criticism or judgment is logically possible.”[5] If morality is synonymous with our feelings, our likes, or our dislikes, then rational considerations have no proper application.
		According to ethical subjectivism, Adolf Hitler was just as normal as Mother Teresa was, so long as each did what he or she thought was right.
		Ethical subjectivism depends on the untenable position that morality is invented, rather than discovered.
	www.reasons.org /resources/fff/2000issue01/index.shtml (1477 words)

	ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY, WESLEYANISM, AND PROCESS THEOLOGY
		He then claims that process thought also recognizes the importance of experience, but avoids subjectivism and solipsism by holding that experience is generalizable to speak of all reality, since all reality "experiences." I think that neither of these points is obvious.
		This brings me to the second point, that subjectivism and solipsism (supposing that they are implicit in Wesleyanism) could be handily avoided by appealing to the process idea of pan-experientialism.
		Second, if the categories of classical metaphysics once seemed well-suited for expressing certain orthodox beliefs, it is not obvious that process thinkers can now simply point out that such classical categories are obsolete and then supply radically new expressions which contradict them.
	wesley.nnu.edu /wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/11-15/15-09.htm (6614 words)

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		Metaphysics helps us understand subjects such as human consciousness and can be simply defined as that which is beyond the physical world.
		Metaphysics aids in understanding the intangible, but because such topics are basically impossible to give concrete evidence or proof of their validity, we can only theorize upon the reasoning for their existance.
		However, because the metaphysical cannot be studied and defined the same way as the physical world, it is this author's belief that objective truth no longer can exist simply due to a lack of feedback for logical matter.
	www.xanga.com /theboy419 (2852 words)

	Steven D. Schafersman, Naturalism Is Today An Essential Part of Science
		Metaphysics in this context is important, and I reject the positivist idea that metaphysics is cognitively meaningless and that science alone provides genuine knowledge, since I believe that science itself is based on a number of highly-developed philosophies (epistemologies), as explained below.
		Metaphysical naturalism makes no moral or normative statements, and it advances no social concerns, both of which seem to me to be essential elements of any religion.
		It is refreshing to state that, unlike theistic methodological naturalists, theistic metaphysical supernaturalists who promote supernaturalism within science or instead of science engage in no logical or moral errors in support of their beliefs: they unequivocally and explicitly support the action of supernaturalism in both nature and supernature.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/ntse/papers/Schafersman.html (12044 words)

	Subject(philosophy) - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki
		This is in contrast to metaphysical objectivism, which asserts that there is an objective reality which is perceived in different ways.
		Ethical subjectivism is the meta-ethical view that ethical sentences reduce to factual statements about the attitudes and/or conventions of individual people.
		In probability, a subjectivism stands for the view that probabilities are simply degrees-of-belief by rational agents in a certain proposition, and which have no objective reality in and of themselves.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Subject(philosophy) (1611 words)

	Metaphysical Womanhood
		The foreshortening of the metaphysical dimension in thinking meant the beginning of the end of such metaphysical cues in social life.
		But in overthrowing the metaphysics of symbolism it fostered an unharnessed individualism – one that, today, chafes, roils and complains as though its unfettered state were worse than any chains.
		The loss of metaphysical womanhood has meant that women, now, play at being men: they put their energy into the ‘public.’ Thus they sacrifice the ‘inner sanctum’ for the worldly prize.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze495hz/id73.html (2606 words)

	Subjectivism - Wikinfo
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	www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Subjectivism (262 words)

	The Psychology of Mysticism - Objectivist Living Forum
		They descend into the same mind-control mentality as the mystics of muscle, not as a means to attain their metaphysical subjectivism, but as substitute.
		By this, I mean not all philosophies that require metaphysical subjectivism due to their premises actually advocate metaphysical subjectivism.
		Certainly, that explains their (relatively) greater interest in pure metaphysical subjectivism, and is compatible with the age of religious systems.
	www.objectivistliving.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=3962 (2551 words)

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