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Single Idea 24215

[catalogued under 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity]

Full Idea

Everything we call 'objective' in experience is what appears in it as necessary.

Gist of Idea

We call experience 'objective' when it seems necessary

Source

Simone Weil (Lect 2: Discovery of Mind [1933], p.112)

A Reaction

An interesting thought. The obvious problem is that what seems necessary to me may not seem so to you. Which comes first in experience, the objectivity or the necessity?

Book Reference

Weil,Simone: 'Lectures on Philosophy' [CUP 1978], p.112