Transjective1 is a kind of relation that is neither purely subjective nor purely objective, but emerges between the subject and object through their mutual interaction and co-shaping.
The subjective/objective binary is insufficient for understanding things like meaning, relevance, consciousness, affordances, love, etc. These aren't just properties of the thing itself (objective), or something imagined by the human (subjective), but a living relation between them.
- Coined by John Vervaeke, it is crucial to his effort to reframe the "meaning crisis" and move beyond the collapse of traditional metaphysical frameworks by showing how we're always already meaningfully bound up with the world. ↩