Mean Quote by Thomas Metzinger Download Open image “Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.” — Thomas Metzinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mean Subjectivity
Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Any objectivity of a subject contains subjective views of the object. — UEK Multimedia Artist Copy Share Image
Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject. — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as passivity. You're either consciously inactive or unconsciously inactive. In both cases, you're interfering with a certain outcome and contributing… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything. — Lou Henry Hoover Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
