Tradition
Projectivism
Overview
Projectivism or projectionism in philosophy involves attributing (projecting) qualities to an object as if those qualities actually belong to it. It is a theory for how people interact with the world and has been applied in both ethics and general philosophy. It is derived from the Humean idea that all judgements about the world derive from internal experience, and that people therefore project their emotional state onto the world and interpret it through the lens of their own experience. Projectivism can conflict with moral realism, which asserts that moral judgements can be determined from empirical facts, i.e., some things are objectively right or wrong.
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But however philosophers and the vulgar may differ in their explication of the contrariety of events, their inferences from it are always of the same kind, and founded on the same principles. A contrariety of events in the past may give us a kind of hesitating belief for the future after two several ways. First, By producing an imperfect habit and transition from the present impression to the related idea.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
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An opinion therefore or belief may be most accurately defined, _a lively idea related to or associated with a present impression_.[6] Here are the heads of those arguments, which lead us to this conclusion. When we infer the existence of an object from that of others, some object must always be present either to the memory or senses, in order to be the foundation of our reasoning; since the mind cannot run up with…
David Hume, Philosophical Works, v. 1
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So long as these phases of the experience of the object are not recognized as separable in thought from the object viewed as an external condition or means, they would apparently be better characterized in some other way. If, however, they are so recognized, and are thereby taken as determinative of the agent's practical attitude toward the thing, we have merely our typical situation of ethical valuation of some…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Close in meaning to Projectivism; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- If and only if
- Bruno de Finetti
- Explanatory power
- Probability
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Theory
- Quasi-realism
- Simon Blackburn
- Moral relativism
- Humeanism
- David Hume
- Ethics
- Moral realism
- Hume's fork
Place in the tradition
Part of Anti-realism.