The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
William JamesJust for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do
William JamesOur faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William JamesPretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
William JamesConsciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.
William James