The ontology of person-centered healthcare: Theoretical essentials to reground medicine within its humanistic framework - Part III - The logic of subjectivity: wrapped in one‘s individual history

Abstract

To ‘embrace’ focused parts of an addressed environment is the way enclosure of outside foci may be described. Here, the opening of the transfer institution called logical lock (LL) in the previous series of articles points, toward the outside of the individual, selects finite parts of it and either rejects them or utilizes them to achieve the corresponding embodiment. The different layers of the intermediating zone that have in total been described as an individual’s orientation matrix (OM) are described. They consist of mostly invisible, but emotionally perceptible and later intellectually discernible layers, such as the one formed by the personal history, present mood and present feelings, anticipations and expectations. To address a person not as an assembly of discernible organs, but as a person, is hence more demanding than addressing the person only as performing a role, a function. In establishing a logical basis for person-centered healthcare approaches, we introduce further logical and descriptive tools to take the invisible layers into account. This clearly hermeneutical approach is opposed to a method that would hypostasise what in this article are termed ‘naked objects’, abbreviated as NOs. We argue that such NOs exist only as mathematical extrapolations. As abstract extrapolations and, as far as individuality is concerned, they cannot be applied in a meaningful way.