It has to do with the fallacy of perception, i.e., the distinction between objective and subjective reality posited as a metaphysical argument. Ruskin thought that the terms "objective" and "subjective" were, metaphysically speaking, meaningless. See John Ruskin, "Of the Pathetic Fallacy," Modern Painters, volume iii, pt. 4, sections 1-3 (1856). Similarly, Schopenhauer’s writings, e.g., Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1819), appear to apply meanings to the terms that are the reverse of their common usage, which, for purposes of discussion, would render them meaningless (viz., should it be The World as Will and Representation, or The World as Subjectively and Objectively Apprehended?). Perhaps the terms are interchangeable depending upon one’s view. As a matter of perspective, the objective and subjective appear to merge at the vanishing point, and any difference between the them disappears.
