[MD] Dualism object/subject

Fam. Kintziger-Karaca kintziger_karaca at hotmail.com
Sat May 1 12:32:28 PDT 2010


> Hildebrand says, "An empirical approach to metaphysics need not
> presuppose a subject/object dualism - indeed, if experience is
> perspicuously attended to, it should not...Since Dewey will not begin
> metaphysical inquiries by presupposing a subject/object dualism, he
> does not need to ward off the same skeptical demons that plagued
> Descartes...Dewey hoped that through examples and empirical
> observations his distinction between primary and secondary experience
> would be patent and its adoption might economize intellectual effort"


An object behaving like a subject , is a subject.
a subject behaving like an object , is an object.
But i can be wrong.


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