Sorry about the stomach virus. Hope you're feeling better. Too much turkey?? <g>
"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.
But big and small ARE purely subjective. A person who to a child is big, to an adult may be small. A tree which to me looks big is to someone accustomed to walking in a Seqouia forest fairly small.
Is an atom big or small? It's small compared to me, but it's huge compared to a quark.
I'm not denying, and never have denied, the existence of differences. I have simply maintained, and still maintain, that whether the differences are important or trivial depends on who is observing the difference and for what purpose.
I do not have to show that something is equally important to each and every observer.
But that's precisely what you DO have to show.
If a difference is important, then it must be important at all times to all observers. If not, then it isn't important, but is sometimes important and sometimes not important. Every difference has the potential to be important, and every difference has the potential to be trivial, and which potential becomes actuality at any given time is purely dependent on the circumstances. Those are transient values, not absolutes. |
