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dekoi
Having recently read a chapter of a book entitled "Consciousness and Its Objects", i have run into some confusion.
The article in its most basic form questions what we are conscious of when we are, well, conscious. It continues to state that we are conscious of ideas which we acquire through thought. Whether ideas are subjective or objective is questioned, and in conclusion, it is stated that, "All ideas are subjective. I have mine; you have yours; and they are never identical or common to us both" Therefore, ideas are in a sense "objects", but have no "objectivity" since they are never shared by two people at the same instant.
Then i run into a roadblock. I then read about the difference between "by which" and "that which". It is stated that ideas are that by which we apprehend everything when concious, not by which we apprehend objects (which is the philosophical mistake in philosophy). It explains:
The article in its most basic form questions what we are conscious of when we are, well, conscious. It continues to state that we are conscious of ideas which we acquire through thought. Whether ideas are subjective or objective is questioned, and in conclusion, it is stated that, "All ideas are subjective. I have mine; you have yours; and they are never identical or common to us both" Therefore, ideas are in a sense "objects", but have no "objectivity" since they are never shared by two people at the same instant.
Then i run into a roadblock. I then read about the difference between "by which" and "that which". It is stated that ideas are that by which we apprehend everything when concious, not by which we apprehend objects (which is the philosophical mistake in philosophy). It explains:
I don't seem to understand this; if anyone is able to help, thank you.It means that we experience perceived things, but never the percepts whereby we perceive them. We remember past events or happenings, but we are never aware of the memories by which we remember them.
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