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From: Kyle Arnold
Date: 1/8/99
Thank you for your response. I'm not too sure about viewing human beings as atoms, as that kind of view would turn persons into objects rather than experiencing subjects, which would seem to me to cover over rather than reveal their subjective worlds. Of course, I guess in a way we can never fully get away from the tendency to objectify subjectivity, as the very act of making it the "object" of inquiry already does so to a certain degree... I think your idea that the question I asked has no answer is interesting, as it would seem to suggest that the paradox I refer to is not a logical, conceptual paradox in IS _theory_ but rather a _psychological_ (or even _ontological_?) paradox in the phenomenon of intersubjectivity itself. If this is so, perhaps somebody needs to examine just what kinds of peculiar problems a theory dealing with an intrinsically paradoxical phenomenon might run up against, and how to deal with these problems. Thanks for the Stern reference, I look forward to reading the article.
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