What do you call something in the middle? I think sexual attraction is likely partly both or to put it another way there is likely a majority consensus but a minority disagreement in most cases.
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Fair. I was more speaking of the quality of an individual absent a specific observer.
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"objectively different to others" -- isn't this essentially the definition of subjective? I mean the "status" of someone being attracted or unattracted is objective but the determination of that status is subjective, no?
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Only in the sense that different things are true of different subjects. It is true of me that I am a woman but true of you that you are a man. This doesn't make our respective genders subjective. Both things are objectively true.
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No-one is denying that subjectivity exists, only that truth can be subjective in the sense of believing different things about the same external object which is not just our own perceptions of it. eg God exists for me but not for you. Therefore the existence of God is subjective
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Hmm. I agree. I guess I'm searching for a definition where there might be use of the term. Eg it's objectively true that I bowl right handed but it's not objectively true that all people do (in fact verifiably false) could this be a useful area for that phrase?
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Why is "subjective" a synonym for "untrue" instead of "experienced"? It seems like you're using convenient alternative definitions here.
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OK, well, you've clarified that what you mean by subjective truth is genuinely having things going on in your mind. But showing that this could be a valid definition doesn't mean that it is what people are referring to in the debate between objective & subjective truth. It isnt
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There's a right or wrong even if *nobody* knows which it is.
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There are studies indicating that there is a genetic cause for liking or disliking cilantro. Which is indeed objective.
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