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• Intersubjectivity is a term coined by philosopher Edmund Husserl in 1895-1938.
• Intersubjectivity refers to the interchange of thoughts and feelings, both conscious and unconscious, between two persons or “subjects,” as facilitated by empathy.
• Intersubjectivity also refers to the shared perception of reality between or among two or more individuals.
• No biases or preferences are exemplified during the dialogue because an individual has learned to perceive and communicate with others with a sense of community and oneness.
• Accepting your classmates’ opinion on government services because his experience with transacting with government employees is different from yours.
• Overlooking the fact that your boss yelled at you since you understand that he only did so out of concern over an urgent matter.
• Social Interactions among individuals through comparison, agreement, and confirmation of each other’s perceptions make it easier to determine real events occurring in society.
• A basic human example of intersubjectivity is people having a shared, common agreement in the definition of an object.
• Epistemology is concerned with the nature of knowledge and different methods of gaining knowledge, while the latter is concerned with what is true or real and the nature of reality.
• Epistemology frequently asked questions like “What do you know?” and “How do you know it?” while ontology asks questions “What is existence?”, “What is true,” and “What is the nature of existence?” The two approaches collaborate to produce the necessary knowledge.
• Ontology establishes the realness of the being or reality, while epistemology teaches us how to explore the given reality of ontology.
• For example, ontology gives us that a banana is existing.
• To prove the claim of ontology that bananas exist, epistemology will provide the methodology such as how it tastes, what it looks like, how it smells, its texture, how it was produced, etc.
• Epistemology usually asks the students how we get knowledge.
• How do we discover new things? Ontological belief “will dictate epistemological beliefs.
• What the research believes about the nature of reality will dictate the kind of relationship they think the researcher should have with whatever is being studied.
• I-It describes entities as discrete objects drawn from a defined set.
• IT in the linguistic sense is attributed to animals or non-living things that are not in human nature, although it is not in the case of Buber's study but attributing the relationship of two pairs as objectively as possible.
• I-Thou describes the world of relations.
• The "I" in I-Thou does not objectify any "It" but rather acknowledges a living relationship.
• I-Thou relationships are sustained in the spirit and mind of an "I" for however long the feeling or idea of relationship is the dominant mode of perception.
• The second person, which is THOU, is treated as YOURSELF, which is more intimate than the other one.
• Some of Buber's followers prefer the "Thou" as much better than the "It," but only as far as perceiving a good relational approach towards other people.
• Either IT or THOU, in the spirit of equality and as your co-human is concerned, we must give the same attitude towards the two like respect, love, and justice, just what the bible says (1 Peter 2:17).
• It is not unethical to give extra love to your very loved ones, but in the spirit of "humanism," you must do the standard of love you owe to yourself to them (Confucius and Christ maxims).
• Some people treat their "past" or their "ex" in a negative way especially if it will bring back the hate and the pain that causes us to be a broken glass relative to our human dignity.
• The pain may also translate you to be braver and bolder, reminding me of the song of Regine Velasquez "You Made Me Stronger".
• The famous life coach Ms. A (Ali Gui) interviewed Regine Velasquez on her secrets of delivering a good life coach and why she is able to give the best advice.
• Authentic Dialogue is a form of interpersonal communication wherein individuals acknowledge that they are part of a greater whole and that they resonate with others within the whole.
• Authentic Dialogue occurs when individuals learn to set aside their personal biases and begin seeing themselves in others through communalization.
• In the context of Authentic Dialogue, other people, including the marginalized sector, are seen as functional parts of a whole.
• Epistemology is the study of the nature of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues.
• There are two basic sets of beliefs about how we should gather new knowledge: the etic approach and the emic approach.
• The word “etic” basically means "look from the outside to see it" or “taking an outsider's view of someone else's situation.
• If you use a fishbowl to represent someone's situation that is being researched, the researcher taking an etic approach would want to look at the fishbowl from the outside, measure it and make observations without even touching it.
• Ontology's view of reality leads to the study of realism where you want to stand back, look at your fishbowl and try to measure it without disturbing the reality you are studying.
• An ‘emic’ approach is used by researchers that believe in a subjective approach (depending on relating) to reality.
• Interacting with people to find out what truth means to them is needed.
• These researchers would want to get inside the fishbowl.
• The potential influence of the researcher on what is being researched is acknowledged, sometimes avoided, or sometimes even embraced.