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The Rational and Empirical Elements in Physics1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

H. Dingle A.R.C.S., D.Sc.
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It is a platitude that thought implies a subject and an object: the subject is the thinker, or the thinking mind, and the object is that which is thought about. This is probably the most elementary fact of consciousness, comprehensible alike to the child, the unreflecting man of affairs, and the philosopher, and it forms the natural startingpoint for philosophy. And indeed, one of the great divisions between philosophical systems is that which separates subjectivism on one hand from objectivism (more often called by the indefinite and overburdened name, realism) on the other. Subjectivism professes to interpret the object in terms of the subject, and objectivism professes to interpret the subject in terms of the object.

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Philosophy , Volume 13 , Issue 50 , April 1938 , pp. 148 - 165
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1938

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References

page 157 note 1 The New Conceptions of Matter (1931), p. 80.

page 157 note 2 Ibid., p. 82.