RE: Does Quran prove God?
October 13, 2018 at 4:46 am
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2018 at 4:48 am by robvalue.)
The word "objective" gets thrown around in apologetics in general as if it’s some kind of spell. You can’t just say something is objective, you have to explain in what way that is the case. It needs to be a conclusion theoretically reachable by anyone, following a certain method, to get some sort of result which actually means something. I think it often just means "relating to god" or "external to our reality", as actually used.
Obvious examples are things like mass, physical dimensions, electrical current, and so on. A method is agreed by which they are measured, and everyone should get the same result if it’s done properly. This result is also then apparent and important when the object interacts with other objects. It makes a difference. I don’t know what difference the "value" of something is supposed to make, outside of personal decisions.
It could of course be determined indirectly that something appears to be objective, as far as we can tell; but again, the data leading to that conclusion should be obtainable by anyone running the experiment.
Obvious examples are things like mass, physical dimensions, electrical current, and so on. A method is agreed by which they are measured, and everyone should get the same result if it’s done properly. This result is also then apparent and important when the object interacts with other objects. It makes a difference. I don’t know what difference the "value" of something is supposed to make, outside of personal decisions.
It could of course be determined indirectly that something appears to be objective, as far as we can tell; but again, the data leading to that conclusion should be obtainable by anyone running the experiment.
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