intersubjectiveadj.

1899 J. Ward Naturalism & Agnosticism II. 170 It seems to depend upon three elements or conditions which are consequences of intersubjective intercourse.

1925 J. E. Turner Theory Direct Realism iv. 44 Intersubjective communication.

1934 M. Black tr. R. Carnap Unity of Sci. iii. 42 It will be proved..that the physical language is inter-subjective and can serve as a universal language.

1945 Psychol. Rev. 52 258/2 Concepts which are to be of value to the factual sciences must be definable by operations which are..intersubjective and repeatable.

1956 Ess. in Crit. 6 10 The validation for the new myth philosophy..plunges, in the vast reservoir of racial unconsciousness, for an intersubjective base for universality.

1967 W. Sellars Philos. Perspectives xv. 371 Universals are..identities not only with respect to their many instances, but also with respect to the many minds which think in terms of them... This inter-subjective and inter-linguistic character must be accounted for by any adequate theory of abstract entities.

1934 M. Black tr. R. Carnap Unity of Sci. iii. 51 In such a case p will be said to have sense (for those persons) inter-subjectively.

1938 Mind 47 133 Propositions about private experiences are intersubjectively understood.

1938 C. Morris Found. Theory of Signs §12. 125 The thesis of the potential intersubjectivity of every meaning.

1945 K. R. Popper Open Society II. xxiii. 205 Scientific objectivity can be described as the inter-subjectivity of scientific method.

1957 C. La Drière in N. Frye Sound & Poetry 97 The acknowledged intersubjectivity of meaning is a kind of objectivity.

1963 R. Carnap in P. A. Schilpp Philos. R. Carnap 52 One of the most important advantages of the physicalistic language is its intersubjectivity, i.e., the fact that the events described in this language are in principle observable by all users of the language.