Intersubjective
Intersubjective describes a quality of knowledge, experience, or meaning that arises from the interaction of two or more conscious beings. It denotes shared understanding, negotiation of meaning, or mutual recognition that cannot be reduced to any single subject’s viewpoint or to brute objective data alone. Intersubjectivity thus lies between the purely subjective and the objective, and it depends on social interaction and communication.
In philosophy and phenomenology, the term is used to describe how meanings and objects become accessible to
In sociology, anthropology, and psychology, intersubjectivity refers to the ways in which people align beliefs, norms,
Critics note that intersubjectivity can obscure power relations or suppress minority viewpoints if the aim is