I apologize for disappearing abruptly, I was overtaken with a stomach virus my son had had over the weekend. I may still need to leave suddenly today.
I do not have to show that something is equally important to each and every observer. That is just your continuation of begging the question. If differences are objective, than magnitude of differences are objective. "Trivial" and "important" are no more relative than "big" and "small", and no one considers those to be purely subjective judgements, but comparative, or within a given framework. When we distinguish differences that are important from those that are trivial, we are referring to those things which may distinguish the objects that remain basically the same, from those that render the objects themselves different, sometimes in various degrees (phylla, genera, species, sub- species, breeds, etc.). |
