(January 29, 2013 at 5:20 pm)NonStampCollector Wrote: Objective as in able to be observed and repeated by multiple people, unaffected by personal belief.
That's intersubjective, and quite literally so
Of course... it would be wrong to state that personal belief doesn't enter into it, because as long as there are people involved there will always be belief, and it will always be personal, even if it looks like the same belief another has.
Quote:I'm aware of philosophical viewpoints that propose that true objectivity can never totally be obtained. I'm not personally given to such thought.
That would explain why you propose retarded things, then
Quote:From a practical viewpoint, many things in this world are supported by objective observation and experimentation. Theism is not one of them.
From a practical viewpoint: nothing is supported by objective observation or experimentation, and if it was: theism might well be one of them.
That's why we use the scientific method, not the impossible method. Practicality, yknow?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
