"The sun as it exists objectively is able to represent the sun as it exists formally in the heavens precisely because it is the same thing that has these two different modes of existence" (Hoffman 202, p, 168).
As part of his reply, Descartes says, "If cold is simply an absence, the idea of cold is not coldness itself as it exists objectively in the intellect, but something else, which I erroneously mistake for this absence, namely a sensation which in fact has no existence outside the intellect" (Descartes, 2 163).
Furthermore, it might be claimed that we could never know the truth, even if it existed objectively, because knowledge requires testing in a properly scientific fashion, and that is not available for moral statements.
If an object exists objectively in a given perception as having a given property, then Arnauld says that the perception represents the object as having that property, that is, makes the object known to the mind as having that property.[4] Furthermore, an idea (or perception) can represent its object to the perceiving mind as having this or that property contingently or necessarily.
For whatever we perceive as being in the objects of our ideas exists objectively <or by representation> in the ideas themselves" (CSM II 113 / AT VII 160).
Again: "Language must name reality, which exists objectively, massive, tangible, and terrifying in its concreteness".
It recovers its simplest function and is again an instrument serving a purpose; no one doubts that the language must name reality, which exists objectively, massive, tangible, and terrifying in its concreteness".
It can exist objectively yet fail to move us when it has no truth to express.
In the development of water-flooded reservoirs, interference exists objectively among different oil layers.
Because evolutionary naturalism proposes an empirical account of morality, it does not require morality to exist objectively; Linville considers the view that this will lead to moral scepticism or antirealism.
Defying intellectualization, life is often considered as the harbinger of what does not yet exist objectively, and when behavior loses its grounding in life, it becomes mechanical and, as a result, comic.
