Subject and object (philosophy)
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The distinction between subject and object is a basic idea of philosophy.
- A subject is a being that exercises agency, undergoes conscious experiences, is situated in relation to other things that exist outside itself; thus, a subject is any individual, person, or observer
- An object is any of the things observed or experienced by a subject, which may even include other beings (thus, from their own points of view: other subjects)
A simple common differentiation for subject and object is: an observer versus a thing that is observed. In certain cases involving personhood, subjects and objects can be considered interchangeable where each label is applied only from one or the other point of view. Subjects and objects are related to the philosophical distinction between subjectivity and objectivity: the existence of knowledge, ideas, or information either dependent upon a subject (subjectivity) or independent from any subject (objectivity).
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See also
- Abstract object theory
- Abstraction
- Binding problem
- Category theory
- Cognitive linguistics
- Concept
- Continuous predicate
- Donald Davidson's swamp man thought experiment (in "Knowing One Own's Mind", 1987 paper)
- Ethics and meta-ethics
- Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)
- Hypostatic abstraction
- List of ethics topics
- Michel Foucault's critique of the subject and the oxymoron "historical subject"
- Moral relativism
- Neo-Kantianism
- Nonexistent object
- Noumenon and phenomenon
- Object-oriented ontology
- Observer (physics)
- Open individualism
- Paramatma
- Personhood theory
- Ship of Theseus
- Sign relation
- Soul
- Subject (grammar)
- Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
- Transcendental subject
- Vertiginous question
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