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... experience or thought, it is considered independent from the mental functions or perceptions of the individual self. This knowledge exists independently of the self, as opposed to subjective knowledge which relies on our experiences, perceptions or thoughts, and can be discovered only by, and through, oneself. Hume begins his classification of morality on the basis of subjectivity vs. objectivity by stating its undeniable relationship with the former: "Those who have denied the reality of moral distinctions may be ranked among the disingenuous disputants; nor is it conceivable that any human creature could ever seriously believe that all characters and actions were alike entitled to the affection and regard of everyone,....by nature and then the gap is widened by education, example and habit so that one cant be so skeptical as to....deny all distinction between them"1 but then dedicates much of the rest of Enquiry to it's tie to the latter, ...
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