Sentences with phrase «traditional subjectivist»

Indeed, it is precisely in this respect that he diverges from the traditional subjectivist approach: his insistence on a more primitive mode of experience than is generally recognized as the starting point for metaphysical investigation.

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In virtue of this it would appear that Santayana rejects what Whitehead calls the subjectivist principle, both in the traditional form Whitehead rejects, and in the revised form he accepts.

Still in the same context he declares that «Descartes modified traditional philosophy in two opposite ways»; e.g., emphasizing the substance - quality categories and introducing the subjectivist bias (PR 241; italics mine).