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To: The Philosopher who wrote (68922)	11/29/2002 8:51:49 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

"You find that difference objectively and always important" Yes...I find the fact that there is REAL difference in objects, and not just difference in awareness to be "important", and to inform much of the subjective "importance" which concerns people individually and in groups. "I find the fact that two pine needles on the same branch are actually different to be of no importance unless I am actually studying pine needles for some reason" For me...when we speak of the pine needles (as we are now doing), they are given importance by our rational faculties---as well as by our senses. Whatever is in awareness has some degree of importance. Whether it is important by principle or by feeling--or by some combination of the objective and subjective grasp--is a question of degree and of focus...as well as of reason and of feeling. BTW, I think that "objective" is one of the most misleading and awkward words in our language. It gets tied into the conjecture of absolutism, and immutabilty, and other imaginative forays which remain fanciful and unobserved (and certainly undesired in any objective sense). The entire objective/subjective dance becomes contaminated by self reference mixed with fancy. The truth is that "objective" does not imply absolutism or God. It simply asserts discrete and knowable existence. On the other hand...absolutism would entail "objective".