there are a few philosophical terms that i understand, yet don't find their meaning to be enough.... i will share what i mean by them and would like to know what people think about my observation.

objective (traditionally to me) means the opposite of emotive. but (non traditionally to me) an objective is a material example or a tangible experience that is a piece of the puzzle.
subjective is the whole (puzzle). ie philosophy is the subject, while existentialism is the object of concentration within the subject.

the ego (in the form of emotions) binds us to categorizing the object based on its tangible form, yet if we were aware of the subjective or metaphysical dimension we could grasp a concept that not only applies to the examples that we experience but avoid the fear of new stimuli because only its physical features would be new. if we observe individual objects with similar attributes, there is a deeper essence that links them; the distinguishable function that determines it necessary for multiple examples with only slight variations to materialize.

to me, this is a useful distinction in metaphysics because as an observer we can only perceive objective reality through empirical data and rationality. though rationality is itself metaphysical, it only exists and becomes more efficient by empirical experience. the brain is a physical organ and the mind is a metaphysical emergent property of the material body. rationality is a tool of the mind, yet because it relies on sense experience to make inferences it is vastly limited.