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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man
Simply put, a book can have no meaning save by reference to its effect on the individual. There can be no objective meaning which sits apart from the reader's experience. Of course, a group of individuals may share similar experiences of a book and may therefore agree on certain aspects of what it means. But no one individual reader's experience will ever be compeltely identical to another's, and so a book can never have one unified, objective meaning.
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Does this only apply to fiction, or are non-fiction books also included - say maths texts, or books on quantum theory? In fact, is it limited only to what we read, or does it extend to movies - & beyond to our everyday lives?
Observer created universe - or solipsism?