Monday, May 4, 2009
Last Question
Is it possible to be "truly" objective? I put truly in quotes because truth is a concept subject to interpretation. Now let's just say, for the sake of argument, that we're talking about being metaphysically objective, that which exists beyond the human mind and experience. Do scientific and/or mathematical laws and theories have a form outside our capabilities of perceiving them or do they only exists when we're being objective in an epistemic sense, that which holds a value of truth by public methods(i.e. Scientific Method?) On the other hand, is "true" objectivity measured by the degrees to how inter-subjective we are? Essentially I'm asking, is it possible to acknowledge and convey "what is" without shaping it to our methods and cultures of thinking? Or is our only way of acknowledging "what is" is by subjecting it to our methods? Does that in any way contaminate our results?
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