I suggest that Whitehead intended to
say subjectivist bias in the first statement.
Not exact matches
I don't think that's the same thing as
saying that hermeneutics are a
subjectivist scrum, though.
He
says of the
subjectivist bias that it is the greatest discovery since Plato and Aristotle (PR 241).
Now when one turns to Whitehead's formal definition of the
subjectivist principle and to his discussion of its derivation one finds him
saying:
In an earlier passage in Process and Reality, prior to his having given Descartes» discovery a name, but clearly having to do with the
subjectivist bias, Whitehead
said:
But elsewhere he
says the construction of meaning is the creative work of the human mind (p. 4); natural theology looks at the world through particular spectacles (p. 22)- expressions which are at least open to a
subjectivist interpretation.
The first thing to
say is that the Synod seems to be infected with an emotivist,
subjectivist, and therapeutic tone.