"What we call objectivity is actually an abstraction that has to come after the subjectivity, a kind of quotienting over subjectivity to build an “observerless” frame of reference. It’s like the way that euclidean space is an abstraction over our experience with space!" Yep!https://twitter.com/ClarissaAdjoint/status/1191139692814708736 …
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This is what I was pointing at here: https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/choice-of-ontology/comment-page-1/ … You can't have concepts without some kind of motivation or prioritization; your motives determine what counts as an "irrelevant" feature to abstract away, which in turn defines your concepts.
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