<An opinion is formulated by a human being whose
perspective is biased by their own personal knowledge
and experiences, therefore it can not be unbiased.>
The demand for an unbiased opinion aims at the ultimate conceivable freedom from prejudice, shaping itself with actual autonomy according to ultimate evidences it has itself produced, and is therefore absolutely self-responsible. The radicalness of self-responsibility is what an unbiased opinion represents.
Perfect evidence and its correlate, pure and genuine truth, are given as ideas lodged in the striving for knowledge, for fulfillment of one's meaning intention. By immersing ourselves in such a striving, we can extract those ideas from it.
What do all your stats and facts mean, Bob Johnson, if they are not rooted in the personal striving for knowledge? What are you hiding behind, Bob?
Science looks for truths that are valid and unbiased, and remain so, once for all and for everyone; it seeks verifications of a new kind, verifications carried through to the end. Science does not attain actualization of a system of absolute truths, but rather is obliged to modify its truths again and again.
An unbiased opinion involves an order of cognition, proceeding from intrinsically earlier to intrinsically later cognitions; ultimately, then, a beginning and a line of advance that are not chosen arbitrarily but have their basis in the nature of the things themselves.
In an unbiased opinion, I must neither make nor go on accepting any judgement as scientific that I have not derived from evidence, from experiences in which the affairs in question are present to me as they themselves. Indeed, even then I must at all times reflect on the pertinent evidence; I must examine its range and make evident to myself how far that evidence, how far its perfection, the actual giving of the affairs themselves extends. Where this is still wanting, I must not claim any final validity, but must account my judgement as, at best, a possible intermediate stage on the way to final validity. |
