[MD] Krimel vs dmb

[Krimel]

dmb said:
... In a nutshell, that's what James and Pirsig are saying: that reality is
fundamentally interpretive rather than objective. You will soon discover
that this view is now so common among thinkers that the objective approach
is considered to be quaint and old-fashioned. 

[Krimel]
Like Tony Stark I as why it is too much to ask for both. I am afraid that
either you have consistently misunderstood me or I have been very unclear in
stating how I see the whole notion of objectivity. This was a problem I
tackled and most resolved for myself as an undergraduate around this time
that ZMM was published. I wound up with objectivity as intersubjectivity.
When we speak of an "object" we are not talking about something independent
of our experience but about the common and constant features of our
individual experiences that allow us to talk about it at all. I would never
claim that these "objective" features are exhaustive or that they need to
be.

My point has always been that a serious analysis of these common features
(an "objective" approach) helps us to integrate and derive meaning from our
experience (an "interpretive" approach). Unfortunately, our discussions
almost always get tangled in up in this small point. We strain at a gnat
while elephants parade past us.