AphroditeGoneAwry
failure to thrive
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Well i see objectivity being seeing something as it is and subjectivity being seeing only some sides of it.
People are unable to see anything as they really are, because to see something as it is, you would have to see EVERYTHING in it and its impossible to not put some sort of subjective view on it. For example if you look at a ball, you can see, yes its a ball, but thats not all there is, the ball is made of molecules that you cant see(and we could take this to quantum physics level also). At the point where you say that molecular structure or the working of quantum mechanics of the ball is irrelevant to the ball, you are taking a subjective view on the ball.
Not to mention when we see a ball, we are inserting our own understanding of what the ball is, how we feel about balls etc, that cant be taken away, thus preventing us to be objective about the ball.
In conclusion, people are always subjective and unable of being objective about anything.
Yeah, yeah, I know. But like Mal said, semantics circle jerks are boring. I think the ob/sub discussion makes for interesting food for thought.
I use the terms daily in my work. They work for me.