Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 99 of 171
The objective as a degree of the subjective
quite apart from interpretation and subjectivity is a quite idle hypothesis: it presupposes that interpretation and subjectivity are not essential, that a thing freed from all relationships would still be a thing. Conversely, the apparent objective character of things: could it not be merely a difference of degree within the subjective?—that perhaps that which changes slowly presents itself to us as “objectively” enduring, being, “in-itself”—that the objective is only a false concept of a genus and an antithesis within the subjective?