Norris says that all thought exhibits a certain structure – formal thought, which is the act of thinking, and objective thought, which is the object of the thinking.
The trouble with the debate on smacking is there has been excess of knee-jerk, emotional reaction and a paucity of logical, objective thought.
This quality greatly impressed Adorno, who wrote, "It lies beyond the bounds of the imagination that a gentle and sensitive person could maintain his self-awareness spiritually and remain capable of objective thought in this organized Hell, the blatant purpose of which, even more than physical destruction, was the destruction of the self".
The Phenomenology of Perception repeats and deepens Merleau-Ponty's critique of objective thought.
Types of memory, such as short-term memory, long-term memory, declarative, procedural, and so on, belong to the category of "objective thought" (Merleau-Ponty 2012).
In a word, Rosmini holds that basic knowledge, consisting of the idea of being and its immediate determinations, provides all that is needed for objective thought.
Not only does the patient experience the loss of conventional memory attributed to "objective thought," her description also captures the way in which the intentional threads that draw her toward the world through bodily and affective feelings have slackened.
This dispute takes place within what Merleau-Ponty calls "the objective thought of common sense and of science – which in the end makes us lose contact with the perceptual experience of which it is nevertheless the result" (2012, 74, emphasis added).
Following this line of thought, we must clarify: where and how is the memory of objective-thought "stored"?
When we learn mindfulness techniques, we help to train our minds to observe its own thoughts, feelings, and sensations with an objective view.
Meinong believes that experiences can have different objects [Gegenstände] for two reasons: (i) Different kinds of acts correspond to different kinds of objects (for example, "objecta" correspond to representations, and "objectives" to thoughts; see below 3.3.1).
