“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.”
@Jayarava What I, at least, am explicitly *not* saying is that this means “everything is subjective”, or any sort of anti-realism.
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@Jayarava Rather: talk about this is confused. It’s somewhat entangled with the mind/body problem morass, so maybe can’t be entirely sorted. -
@Jayarava Quote is from a paper on the objectivity of ethics, where it’s particularly difficult to think clearly about what “objective” is. - 2 more replies
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