<div dir="ltr"><div>"no objective, just intersubjective."</div><div><br></div><div>Well... Peirce would certainly be onboard with that, with just one caveat. </div><div><br></div><div>He would point out that sometimes the intersubjective seems to converge on agreement among those who care to pursue a line of inquiry, and other times the inquiry diverges and the apparent target of inquiry seems to dissipate... and that if "objective", "truth", or related words, have any useful meaning, it is to refer to those instances in which, at least for the time being, convergence seems to be winning. </div><div><br></div><div>And he would fully acknowledge the risk of the problem-of-induction, in such cases... with the primary point being that there is nothing else we could rightly be using "objective" to refer to, beyond our sense that a certain target-of-inquiry seems likely (to us) to stay converged.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:echarles@american.edu" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 3:52\u202fPM Russell Standish <<a href="mailto:lists@hpcoders.com.au">lists@hpcoders.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 08:31:50PM -0500, Nicholas Thompson wrote:<br>
> Hi, Glen, <br>
> <br>
> As usual, I have launched myself into alien territory without a pass port. I<br>
> cannot follow the analysis stuff, but allow me to comment on objectivity. I<br>
> dont think it has anything to do with physiiological correlates-=- that's just<br>
> icing on the cake. Do you get migraine auras? Lets imagine for a moment that<br>
> migraine auras had absolutely no physiological correlates. How would we go<br>
> about doing science on them? Or are they a subjective phenomenon. That would<br>
> be odd because already we seem to be talking about them. they seem to be on the<br>
> face, intersubjective. I wonder what the difference is between intersubjective<br>
> and objective?<br>
<br>
According to some, no difference at all. I belong to the school of<br>
thought that there is no objective, just intersubjective.<br>
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