1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nage

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    5 days ago

    It’s just saying that real objectivity is impossible because everything is filtered through a subjective lens.

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      I like boiling things down to their minimums, but if it can really be boiled down to that level, then it doesn’t seem like anything new. Descartes’s famous argument about his own existence was in response to the idea that objective reality can’t be known, wasn’t it? It seems quite similar to me, at least.