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What does "fit" mean in "intersubjective fit"?

 
 
Reply Wed 22 Apr, 2015 12:18 am
Does "fit" here refer to "the manner in which something fits"?

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The subjective world is situated in an intersubjective space, a cultural space... without this cultural background... I wouldn't have the tools to interpret my own thoughts to myself. So here the validity claim is not so much objective propositional truth, or subjective truthfulness, but intersubjective fit. This cultural background provides the common context against which my own interior thoughts and beliefs will have some sort of meaning, and so the validity criteria here involves the "cultural fit" [of a statement] within this background... What is so remarkable about common understanding is not that I can take a simple word like "dog" and point to a real dog and say "I mean that." What is so remarkable is that you know what I mean by that. [So it is] a matter of how we arrange collectively, our ethics, morals, laws, culture, group or collective identities, background contexts..."[29]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber#Theory_of_truth
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Reply Thu 23 Apr, 2015 11:18 pm
@oristarA,
"Fit" can mean match(es) or suitable or appropriate.

"it's a good fit" means two thing "go together"

"fit for a king" means suitable, etc.

It's not a good fit" can mean two things don't match up well.

If clothes don't "fit" you, they're not the right size--not a good match.

That's how he appears to be using "fit," here.

If you (one subject) use the word "dog" in the same way other subjects do, then there is an intersubjective fit (match).
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Reply Wed 6 May, 2015 05:07 am
@layman,
Cool.
Thanks.
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