Questions tagged [subjectivity]
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Does impersonation heighten the evil of an immoral behaviour, perhaps similarly to illegality?
Does impersonation heighten the evil of an immoral behaviour, perhaps similarly to illegality? I tend to think of just laws doing exactly that, and suspect that impersonating, e.g. by identity theft, ...
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Suppose something we thought was subjective was in fact chaotic (in the mathematical sense). How would we test for that?
I'm a mathematics PhD student, and I've often wondered how one distinguishes subjective phenomena from those that, instead, depend extremely upon initial conditions (i.e., are mathematically chaotic).
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Mortimer Adler, "How to Read a Book": Two questions about the objectivity and subjectivity of reality
Mortimer Adler, in his "How to Read a Book" (1972 edition), Chapter 10, "Criticizing a Book Fairly", wrote:
The third [general maxim of intellectual etiquette] is closely related ...
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Do we feel compelled to defend objectivity, but not subjectivity, because objectivity is a concept in the domain of the subjects' knowledge?
Objectivity
https://iep.utm.edu/objectiv/
The object is something that presumably exists independent of the subject’s perception of it. In other words, the object would be there, as it is, even if no ...
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What would it be like for a person with no senses and no motor functions at all since birth?
As a sort of thought experiment trying to go to the farthest lengths of knowing oneself from the distractions of this world, I wanted to know what it would be like for a person that was born with none ...
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Are degrees of beliefs represented as probabilities just emotions?
After reading up on probability theory, it seems that there are two camps: objective and subjective probability theory.
Objective probability can refer to something like the probability of a dice roll ...
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Which view is theoretically more virtuous: (1) metaphysical solipsism, (2) everything is real or (3) some things are real and some are hallucinations?
Let's consider three theories:
Metaphysical solipsism.
Every subjective conscious experience points to an objective external reality.
Some subjective conscious experiences point to an objective ...
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Is the evaluation of art's subjectivity wrong? and what is the goal behind our interpretations of art?
if art is subjective wouldn't that will make it a tatuology? Can The statemente"I like X more than Y, therefore X is better than Y be considered a tautological argument? because it equates repeat ...
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Understanding the difference between subject and object [closed]
Sometimes, the subject is an active thing. In the sentence, "He loves her," the subject of the sentence is active.
Other times, the subject is a passive thing. In the sentence "He is ...
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Is the hallucination hypothesis always the best explanation?
Suppose there are two persons A and B.
A attests to having witnessed some extraordinary event, e.g. A claims to have had an extraordinary religious experience with an other-worldly entity. Let's say ...
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How to see a subject within an object?
One can explore a thing (and its sense) only forcing it to suffer (i.e. to interact with a human's consciousness) and bounding it in ideal and material worlds: its will, freedom, ability to gnosis and ...
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Subjectivity vs. Objectivity, A Mathematical Analysis
To my knowledge, objectivity is more the merrier and subjectivity a loner. That is to say, the probability of something being objective is thought to increase with the number of observers. The whole ...
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How far is this statement likely to be true, "the way what can be measured almost always takes precedence over what cannot"? [closed]
Excerpt from Rebecca Solnit's book 'Men Explain Things to Me':
My friend Chip Ward speaks of “the tyranny of the quantifiable,” of
the way what can be measured almost always takes precedence over ...
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Does a statement have to be true for it be objective? [closed]
For example let's say someone said "Dad just got home" as joke but the father hadn't actually arrived, or "He told you to take the trash out" but that was a lie and didn't actually ...
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When someone says "That makes/doesn't make sense" is that more subjective or more objective?
For example what if someone said "That makes sense" in response to saying "The pot will burn you if you touch it because it's hot." I'm inclined to say objective but it's possible ...
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