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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (69426)	12/6/2002 1:43:15 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

No, just because agreement has not been secured does not make something subjective, and certainly not wholly so. Many judgments are contingent upon experience, specialized knowledge, or long reflection, and one cannot expect to secure consensus in one afternoon of discussion, or even several. Besides, if one does a complex mathematical problem along with several people, the answer does not become "subjective" because a couple of them make a calculating error, and the main way one checks to see if one made an error oneself is to recalculate. Much of life is a matter of surmise, and such guesses are particularly prone to being swayed by bias. But many things are approachable in a fairly objective way, in fact, and one may aspire to objectivity as a goal in many instances.....