Related to facts vs opinions but not quite the same is objective/subjective dichotomy, popular in conventional philosophy. I find it extremely misleading and contributing a lot to asking wrong questions and accepting ridiculous non sequiturs.
For instance, it’s commonly assumed that things are either subjective or objective. Moreover, if something is subjective it’s arbitrary, not real and not meaningful. To understand why this framework is wrong, one requires good understanding of map/territory distinction and correspondence. How completely real things like wings of an airplane can exist only in the map, and how maps themselves are embedded in the territory.
But this isn’t part of philosophy 101 and so we get confused arguments about objectiveness of X and whole schools of philosophy, noticing that, in a sense, everything we interact with is subjective, so objectivity either doesn’t exist or its existence doesn’t matter to us, with all kind of implications, some of which do not add to normality.
Related to facts vs opinions but not quite the same is objective/subjective dichotomy, popular in conventional philosophy. I find it extremely misleading and contributing a lot to asking wrong questions and accepting ridiculous non sequiturs.
For instance, it’s commonly assumed that things are either subjective or objective. Moreover, if something is subjective it’s arbitrary, not real and not meaningful. To understand why this framework is wrong, one requires good understanding of map/territory distinction and correspondence. How completely real things like wings of an airplane can exist only in the map, and how maps themselves are embedded in the territory.
But this isn’t part of philosophy 101 and so we get confused arguments about objectiveness of X and whole schools of philosophy, noticing that, in a sense, everything we interact with is subjective, so objectivity either doesn’t exist or its existence doesn’t matter to us, with all kind of implications, some of which do not add to normality.