seen as the particular thing that determines and defines the method for attaining the objective, and does so by the use of certain principles, then this problem can be overcome. If the object of a judgment is understood as being the principle determining the judgment’s objectivity rather than understanding the object of a judgment as a qualified object, similar to “das Ding an sich”, which recurs in every judgment, then one will find that every specific judgment has an object specific to that same judgment. This is an object that determines the validity of a specific judgment, thereby restricting the reach of that specific judgment to the investigated objects themselves rather than extending the reach of the same judgment to include their supposed metaphysical counterparts - which are supposed to be applicable to every judgment, regardless of specific object matter. Thus, it is the concrete object of a specific judgment that is the objective element determining the truth value of the judgment, rather than a postulated abstract object. The subjective principle for the determination of an object is given in the “self ” - a principle that is represented in the laws of thought.164 Because, if the distinction between the specific object of a judgment and the universal object (the absolute object) is not observed, then the analysis of a judgment will run the risk of turning into an analysis of being itself, which transforms the epistemological investigation into an ontological one, whereby the truth value of a judgment becomes confused for that which is real.165 The problems that the assumption of an absolute subject,“self ” or consciousness, creates originate in an attempt to overcome the differences between the absolute subject and the relative object. To subjectivism, the problem emanates from the following understanding of correspondence: If any judgment is possible to verify, then both the subject and the object must share some a ca l l f o r s c i e n t i f i c p u r i t y 223 164 Cf. ibid., pp. 74-75. 165 Cf. Hägerström, Selbstdarstellungen, passim.
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