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POTD #260 objectivity
 Poll Question: Objectivity. Is it possible?
Yes, and here is why:
 
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No, and here is why:
 
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I'm too lazy to post thoughts, and FU for trying to make me.
 
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Post #1: 24th Mar 2018 12:17 PM 
Is true objectivity possible? No easy button here. Explain yourself, please.

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Post #2: 24th Mar 2018 1:11 PM 
Depends on what kind of objectivity you are talking about. I'm assuming you mean how we come to hold the opinions we have.

If so, then aye, I do lean towards thinking true objectivity being impossible. We are all inevitably informed by our biases and personal experiences.
 
   
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Post #3: 24th Mar 2018 1:37 PM 
No. Everyone’s perspective is colored by their personal experience. Even if we strive to view things objectively, it’s still viewed from a skewed perspective in contrast to someone else.
 
   
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Post #4: 24th Mar 2018 2:49 PM 
It's possible as soon as I get to be judge Judy and executioner
 
   
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Post #5: 24th Mar 2018 2:50 PM 
Yes, Mathematics.
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Post #6: 25th Mar 2018 2:18 AM 
Tattooed Tooth @ 24/3/2018 19:50
Yes, Mathematics.


yup.
 
   
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Post #7: 25th Mar 2018 2:18 AM 
also any analytic proposition.
 
   
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Post #8: 25th Mar 2018 10:31 AM 
Tattooed Tooth @ 24/3/2018 13:50
Yes, Mathematics.

Your axiom is showing.
 
   
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Post #9: 25th Mar 2018 10:31 AM 
Mathematics is the closest, but purely objective, no.
 
   
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Post #10: 25th Mar 2018 9:48 PM 
Well, it may include arbitrariness. But could the nature of such arbitrariness classify it as a subjective part?
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Post #11: 25th Mar 2018 10:36 PM 
Primate @ 25/3/2018 15:31
Mathematics is the closest, but purely objective, no.


are you using "objective" in some special way?

what part of math isn't objective?
 
   
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Post #12: 25th Mar 2018 10:57 PM 
Does free will exist in the first place?
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Post #13: 25th Mar 2018 11:57 PM 
I voted yes, something is either true or false, it can't be both.

Personal experience paint your POV, but that could just mean you're wrong about some of your opinions.
 
   
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Post #14: 26th Mar 2018 12:06 AM 
Equal rights, colors, murder is morally wrong, maths, science, the existence of a moon and a sun, are things that are all true.

If there are two conflicting things that are true I can't think of it.
 
   
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Post #15: 26th Mar 2018 11:54 AM 
Shadrach Woods @ 25/3/2018 22:36
Primate @ 25/3/2018 15:31
Mathematics is the closest, but purely objective, no.


are you using "objective" in some special way?

what part of math isn't objective?


Are you assuming a base 10 system? That's worse than assuming gender!
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