No. Cilantro either smells like soap to you or it doesn't. This is objectively true or false even tho it applies to a subject - you. Does Cilantro objectively smell like soap? No. https://twitter.com/unigolyn/status/1000003396106162176 …
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Language here fails us because it is ambiguous. As noted, the phrase “subjective truth” is susceptible to double meaning. The problem is, the meaning most people use (“true because I think it” as opposed to “true state of mind”) is, as you point out, utter nonsense.
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So to go back to my example, cilantro is objectively a plant but subjectively delicious. It can not be subjectively a planet.
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Yes, subjectivity exists. You don't think people who are criticising subjective truth are criticising subjective experiences which are truly experienced?
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That's just tautological. It is impossible to objectively prove that I don't like cilantro. Yet I assure you it is true. Hence it's a subjective truth. Obviously subjectivity does not apply to objective facts like evolution.
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Yikes, that's not what subjective means at all. If it were, parts of evolution would be subjective because we can't conclusively prove that they happened.
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At no point did I say "subjective means unprovable".
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Well, you certainly implied it with your cilantro example. If that wasn't what you were trying to convey there, then I don't know what was the point of that analogy.
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The point was that while there are objectively physiological (genetic) reasons you can point to about how I smell cilantro differently, my dislike of it is entirely subjective yet still true.
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I'm muting this conversation now. It has been explained to you many times that the existence of subjective experience is not denied or criticised by anyone. That isn't what 'subjective truth' means.
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