subject-objectn.adj.

1821 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 249/1 The subject witnesses to itself that it is a mind, i.e. a subject-object, or subject that becomes an object to itself.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxiii. 69 The immediate object, or object known in this act, should be called the subjective object, or subject-object, in contradistinction to the mediate or unknown object, which might be discriminated as the object-object.

1897 A. Kroeger tr. J. G. Fichte Sci. Ethics 47 This whole Ego, in so far as it is neither subject nor object, but subject-object, has, in itself, a tendency to absolute self-activity.

1921 R. B. Haldane Reign of Relativity xii. 262 According to one school of New Realism..,there is..an approach to dualism, between what may be called in a carefully limited sense subject-objects and mere objects.

1999 D. Sherman in L. Rauch & D. Sherman Hegel's Phenomenol. Self-consciousness Introd. 7 From the first-person standpoint, we (individually and collectively), as subjective Subject-Objects, are nature, and nature, as an objective Subject-Object, is us, meaning that we can only comprehend ourselves by comprehending nature.

1859 A. Bain Emotions & Will 645 We might remain for ever at this point, being distinctly aware of a certain number of qualities without attaining the subject-object cognition.

1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 484 The thought is necessarily and universally subject-object; matter is necessarily, and to us universally, object-subject.

1871 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 122 The picture of the patriotic metaphysician [sc. Fichte] descending from his chair to test, at the head of his own class, the reconciliation of the grand ‘subject-object’ theory with hard fact on the field of Leipsic, is probably familiar to all my readers.

1886 Mind 11 67 Mr. Spencer is inclined to believe that each state of consciousness as subject-object relation is compounded of the feeling and the relational element, knowing.

1908 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 5 210 The attribute of polarity, or subject-object duality,..is one of the most notable differentiæ of even the simplest psychical states.

1933 Jrnl. Philos. 30 65 We have described those features of subject-object situations whereby the narrowness of a point of view is escaped.

1955 I. T. Ramsey in Philos. Q. 5 203 Nothing is properly called an ‘awareness’ which has not a subject-object structure.

1970 W. Johnston Still Point (1971) i. 4 Zen meditation is a process of unification in which the whole personality is harmonized in a oneness which reaches its climax with a complete absence of subject-object consciousness in satori.

2011 J. D. Ebert Mew Media Invasion i. ii. 47 In his [sc. Descartes's] writings, the basic ontology of an absolute subject-object dichotomy was created.

1912 A. D. Sheffield Gram. & Thinking vi. 88 As the first grammarians, dealing with inflected speech, made their chief criterion form, so the modern, dealing with speech that is mainly analytic, tend to make it function, basing the noun on the subject-object relations, the verb on predication, etc.

1936 J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. xvi. 222 The logical essence of these cases can be clearly discerned in the fact that the nominative and accusative are subject-object cases.

2001 Anthropol. Linguistics 43 228 Morphosyntactic phenomena such as subject-object case marking.

1834 Trans. Royal Asiatic Soc. 3 iii. 432 Fichte..gives..the following explanation of the fundamental principle of his system, which the reader is expected to find clear as the sun: ‘Egoism (die Ichheit) is subject-objectivity, and nothing else whatever.’

1925 M. Whiton Calkins Persistent Probl. of Philos. vii. 246 The critic of Kant may point out that the difficulty which this discredited conception was framed to meet is itself artificial, in other words, that self-consciousness is not in its essential meaning subject-objectivity.

1998 G. Zöller Fichte's Transcendental Philos. iii. vi. 90 The opposition of the real and ideal introduced into human mentality under the basic form of subject-objectivity shows itself as a fundamental opposition within thinking itself.