09-22-2013, 01:36 AM
(09-22-2013, 12:24 AM)milo Wrote:(09-22-2013, 12:18 AM)rayheinrich Wrote: 'Objectivity' is just another way we flatter ourselves;This reminds me of another funny cliché "everything is subjective"
it's a delusion created by our hubris.
Really? If that is true than nothing is subjective, as the word only exists to describe a state.
Yes, the statement "everything is subjective" is ambiguous.
A better way of stating it would be: "All perceptions are subjective."
A tree, a rock, or that spider under your chair are definitely
not subjective. It's our perceptions of them that are.
"Subjective" and "objective" don't usually describe states.
Of course they can:
"Oswald the duck was feeling especially subjective today.
Yesterday, when he looked at the wheelbarrow, it was red.
Today, it definitely seemed communist."
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