My contention is supported by the explicit diagnosis of the difficulties of Descartes and his followers in which
the term subjectivist bias is used:
However, he overlooks or ignores those texts which explicitly define the subjective principle and uses the term as if it had the same meaning as
the term subjectivist bias, which forty in turn confuses with the reformed subjectivist principle.
After quoting the passage diagnosing Descartes» difficulties (which uses
the term subjectivist bias), Rorty adds:
I think we have clear evidence that the two
terms subjectivist principle and subjectivist bias must be clearly distinguished.
Not exact matches
In opposition to the «unreformed»
subjectivist principle, which holds that «the datum in the act of experience can be adequately analyzed purely in
terms of universals» (PR 157/239), Whitehead insists that we have a direct experience of the causality of the past (PR 169 / 256, 178 / 271).
The
subjectivist principle is, that the datum in the act of experience can be adequately analysed purely in
terms of universals...
The specific sentence quoted indeed begins «The
subjectivist principle is that the whole universe (PR 252), but
subjectivist principle is clearly not the correct
term here.
Our understanding the symbolic process in
terms of the bipolar theory of perception avoids the one - sidedness of an exclusively psychological or
subjectivist location of religious symbolism.