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On the Subject of Subjectivity

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“The reality of subjectivity* is [a] primordial datum – the primordial datum par excellence, in fact – that cannot be denied without a swift descent into nonsense.”

David Bentley Hart

 

 

*By “subjectivity,” Hart means a person’s subjective experience of phenomena as distinct from the phenomena themselves.  The discussion of subjectivity is often tied to the concept of “qualia.”  See, e.g., here.