“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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“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
No one can clearly say what it would mean for something to be objective, or not. Most philosophical Big Ideas are like this.
“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.
“Objectivity” is a secular replacement for “God-given”: meaning one can rely on. There isn’t any; but that doesn’t mean there is no meaning.
@Meaningness I think your definition of objectivity is off. The scare quotes are a bit of a give away.
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