letting one's own biases and experience cloud how what they believe and how they arrive at their beliefs. — MindForged
What is external to the mind? — Anthony
That objectivity has come to mean that which is somehow totally seperate from a subject is just an unfortunate conceptual slide which has caused all sorts of confusion. — StreetlightX
But I think that more than a couple or even a few subjects would be required to agree about a belief based on the same evidence for it to be counted as objective. — Janus
... infinite sample size ... — Pattern-chaser
Connected with taking methodological naturalism as a metaphysical principle, which it isn't. — Wayfarer
The Newton's theory is still a theory - but is it objective? — Damir Ibrisimovic
In line with this modern alteration of the meaning of "objective", and together with the rise of metaphysical realism (Putnam's phrase for the thesis that what exists objectively must exist entirely separately from human concerns and/or concepts), another main culprit, it seems to me, is representationalism in the philosophy of mind and in contemporary cognitive science. — Pierre-Normand
I agree that we need more than two subjective views to proclaim that the theory is objective. — Damir Ibrisimovic
I think you might mean something quite mild when you say "objective", maybe "unbiased"? Even then, there is a difference between that and consensus. — Pattern-chaser
Also worth noting that in the medieval terminology from which the subject-object distinction derived, an object was a strict correlate of a subject, so that the two were conceptually inseperable. The esse objectivm was that which existed only for a knowing being - something was objective only to the extent that it existed for a knowing being. — StreetlightX
That objectivity has come to mean that which is somehow totally seperate from a subject is just an unfortunate conceptual slide which has caused all sorts of confusion. — StreetlightX
I don't thinks this quite works. — Marchesk
What about Global Warming? We have very large scientific consensus - and yet we have large non-scientific views denying that Global Warming exists... — Damir Ibrisimovic
If so, this would be the first time in the history of the earth, that human caused the earth to warm. — wellwisher
However, a single person cannot and will not ever be able to be objective, but we can be objective as a group, if members of that group has the intention of individually being objective through the process. — Christoffer
What about Global Warming? We have very large scientific consensus - and yet we have large non-scientific views denying that Global Warming exists... — Damir Ibrisimovic
An object existing objectively means it exists without an observers existence. To be objective means putting forth an argument or statement that is focused on the actual facts rather than the interpretations of those facts.
Example: There is a painting of a flower in a room. Ten people gets the task of going into the room and then come out and write down a description of what they saw in that room. All of these descriptions become a subject interpretation of the fact (the painting of a flower). But the sum of all those interpretations is the objective viewpoint. I.e a single person cannot hold a purely objective opinion or viewpoint, but a collective can, as long as the interpretations are presented, as close as they individually can, to be objective. — Christoffer
All of these descriptions become a subject interpretation of the fact (the painting of a flower). But the sum of all those interpretations is the objective viewpoint. I.e a single person cannot hold a purely objective opinion or viewpoint, but a collective can... — Christoffer
You suggest that consensus, where we all agree, but we could all be wrong, is the same as objective, which offers a sort of guarantee that something is correct, and accurately reflects reality? — Pattern-chaser
You suggest that consensus, where we all agree, but we could all be wrong, is the same as objective, which offers a sort of guarantee that something is correct, and accurately reflects reality? — Pattern-chaser
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