Subjective and Objective
I can never tell how much of my experience is reality and how much is just (the reality or psychology of) me. That is of course the classic metaphysical divide: between self and external world, between self and other, between subjective and objective, between desire and fact, between appearance or illusion and reality. (Not to mention that that very divide is itself subject to doubt.) One of the great insights I have derived from amoralism is that the strength of one's conviction (factual or normative) can be an indication of its very opposite, that is, that what-one-is-convinced-about can turn out to be false, or at least doubtful. (I won't go so far as to say that conviction is a measure , such that what one is convinced about is doubtful to the degree that one is convinced it is true. But it often seems that way!) Perhaps, then, all of the great insights of philosophy (and the content of wisdom) are instances of discoverin...