is unsatisfactory, allowing the interpretation that his concept of conceptual determination is circularly determined, and thus indeterminable. His notion of conceptual determination is dialectic, having two different aspects. One shows determination conducted in accordance with the object’s own qualities, and thus entails a method of determination that strives towards determining the object in a self-identical manner, an objectively true manner. The other determination is conducted in accordance with the subject’s own faculties, namely logic and structured thought, which determines the object in a non-contradictory manner, a logical and formal manner. It is in the second manner that the objects of thought - the concepts - become systematized once they have been determined in the first, objective, sense of the word.This conclusion does not imply that a concept is necessarily determined in this specific chronological order, a concept might just as well first have been determined according to the laws of logic (subjectively), and then applied to physical reality - in order to be kept objective. However, if this is the case, then Hägerström’s unfortunate lack of distinction between “reality” and “existence” makes itself heard with renewed force, because this means that any real concept must exist in the objective meaning of the word. a ca l l f o r s c i e n t i f i c p u r i t y 191 (NB. In “Botanisten och filosofen” Hägerström had yet to make the distinction between subjective reality and objective reality, a distinction that defines how something can be subjectively real,or have subjective reality.The distinction sought here is the one stating that while subjective reality expresses an intermediary form of existence, a form of reality through which a concept, thought, fantasy and so on can claim existence on the basis of a thinking physical subject’s thoughts, objective reality expresses the idea that an object, fact, factual circumstance can claim existence by virtue of its own self-identity.70 ) 70 See also Konrad Marc-Wogau who both speaks of indirect and direct connection to the context of reality and Bo Petersson who speaks of reality in a wide and a narrow sense of the word. Marc-Wogau, Studier till Axel Hägerströms filosofi, pp. 85-150; Petersson, Värdeteori, pp. 16-23, 27, 37-39, 47-53, 121, and 177-178.
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