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."
all this useless beauty... but what the hell, why not?

