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Intersubjectivity?
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The fact that we share one world of meaning with other minds, rather than each living in a private bubble.
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Phenomenology?
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Carefully describing experience from the inside, exactly as it's lived (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty).
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What phenomenology finds about others?
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Describe experience honestly and you're always already among others — the world comes pre-shared.
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Merleau-Ponty on the body?
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We read each other through the body — you feel a friend's sadness in their slumped shoulders before any words.
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Buber's I–Thou?
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Meeting another person fully as a 'you' — truly present, one person to another.
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Buber's I–It?
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Treating another person as a thing — an object you use or size up.
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Why do Thou-meetings matter for Buber?
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You only become a full self in genuine I–Thou meetings, not by using people as Its.
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How does intersubjectivity answer solipsism?
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Not by proving other minds, but by showing you never started alone — you were always in a shared world.
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