“Objectivity,” when shaken, falls apart into loose imagistic metaphors. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-anti-realism/index.html#Sub … HT @gwernpic.twitter.com/uCfWT25jnB
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“I know it when I see it” doesn’t work when there are gray areas or disagreements—as there frequently are in the case of “objectivity.”
What would “objective” meanings even be, and why would we want them? I think the underlying issue is certainty, and below that, trust.
We feel betrayed when meanings slide out from under us, and demand eternal, certain ones; or lose all trust in meaning and adopt nihilism.
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