RE: Why atheism cannot escape absolute truth
October 7, 2015 at 12:08 am
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2015 at 12:09 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Delicate Wrote:Subjective truths are those truths whose truth values depend on what people think, or feel, or experience. Claims like "Vanilla ice-cream is delicious" are subjectively true.
Subjective truths are still true objectively.
From the Moral Landscape by Sam Harris:
Sam Harris Wrote:As philosopher John Searle once pointed out, there are two very different senses of the terms “objective” and “subjective”. The first sense relates to how we know (i.e., epistemology), the second to what there is to know (i.e., ontology). When we say that we are reasoning or speaking “objectively”, we generally mean that we are free of obvious bias, open to counterarguments, cognizant of the relevant facts, and so on. This to make a claim about how we are thinking. In this sense, there is no impediment to our studying the subjective (I.e. first-person) facts “objectively. (Harris, 2010, p. 29)
All truth is ultimately objective, whether about subjective states of affairs or not. Objectively true is just true.