identical with one another.17 According to Konrad Marc-Wogau, it is clear that Hägerström in Das Prinzip derWissenschaft chooses to identify subject and object in a manner typical of the type of subjectivism that Hägerström criticized,18 and that Hägerström identifies the two regardless of the inherent opposition between subject and object traditionally postulated in and by philosophy.19 If the identification of subject and object is combined with the fact that Hägerström also characterizes reality as “das absoluteWissen”,“der absolut giltige Begriff ”, and “der absolute Begriff ”, then it becomes obvious that Hägerström identifies subject and object, as well as the Subjective and the Objective with one another in a manner typical of subjectivism.20 The natural corollary is that Hägerström’s view inDas Prinzip derWissenschaft must be based upon an underlying metaphysical structure absent in Selbstdarstellungen, where Hägerström, on the contrary, rather than identifying subject and object with one another, places subject and object in one self-identical context, namely physical reality where their relationship to one another does not per se cause contradictions.21 In the self-identical context of physical reality the relationship between the content of the subject and the qualities of the object are possible to determine without resorting to contradictory, metaphysical, constructions.This thus constitutes a context that facilitates the explanatory power of his epistemology. Hägerström’s understanding of cognition and knowledge proper are hence dependent upon a context in which subject and object do not exclude one another.22 p a r t i i 1 , c h a p t e r 1 174 17 Marc-Wogau, Studier till Axel Hägerströms filosofi, pp. 61-62. 18 Ibid., pp. 63-64. 19 Ibid., pp. 63-64. 20 Ibid; Hägerström, P. d.W., p. 74 and 85. 21 Cf. Hägerström, Selbstdarstellungen, pp. 21-26. 22 Cf. ibid.
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