When we say that discovering theme is partly a subjective task, we are using which of the following meanings of subjective?
a. characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived, rather than as independent of mind
b. being or relating to a grammatical subject
c. lacking in reality or substance
d. none of the above

a. characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived, rather than as independent of mind.

Explanation: the denotation of a word is the literal meaning, the one that we can find in a dictionary (it is the contrary of connotation, which is the meaning given by the context of the word), sometimes a word can have different denotations, as it is the case of the word "subjective", in the given sentence, the meaning (or denotation) of the word "subjective" is the corresponding to option A: characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived, rather than as independent of mind.

in this text, paine use the word “ye” several times in order to  capture  the  attention of the colonists who   haven't understand the   importance and urgency of his cause. the word "ye" that is the plural of   "thou" is used to call the colonists attention and make the fight for the cause.

where are the anwsers