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The Subjectivist World

Posted by RobMorse 9 years, 5 months ago to Humor
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Clever picture. Welcome to the subjectivist world where reality is what we say it is.
SOURCE URL: https://slowfacts.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/welcome-to-the-subjectivist-world/

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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 5 months ago
    It used to be said, "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts." The Subjectivist maintains that facts are dependent on one's view of reality, i.e., the facts are what I perceive them to be, and there are no absolutes (except when I declare them to be so, as in climate change, where the science is settled). It's the ultimate in narcissism.

    We can thank Ms Dolezal for creating a new form of trans-whatever, the transracial person, a black woman trapped in a white body. I suppose we could categorize Hillary Clinton as a transethical person, an honest person trapped in the body of a pathological liar.
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  • Posted by philosophercat 9 years, 5 months ago
    Great picture of Hilary. In the subjectivist world people cannot communicate with each other as their words do not have objective meaning. Two people can only communicate if there is an objective outside world. Communication depends on the word I use having the same meaning to the person I send it to. Experience has shown it simplifies a business transaction and is the necessary basis of honesty.
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  • Posted by davidmcnab 9 years, 5 months ago
    There is a strong contingent of 'thinkers', heavily represented in university faculty staff, who are trying to massively down-scale the importance society places on 'facts', and up-scale the importance placed on 'perceptions'.

    They use the word 'science' in their course titles, but the courses end up being nothing like science. No controlled conditions. No reproducibility. No standardised measurement. Not a p-value in sight.

    I confronted one of these professors, asking her "well, if this course is science, then I guess so is finger-painting, or dance, or knitting". To my astonishment, she said "yes, that would be true".

    What part of "facts" are people having such a bloody big problem with?
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    • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 5 months ago
      Ahh you are speaking of sociologists? There's a reason for Bachelor Arts as opposed to Bachelor of Science.
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      • Posted by davidmcnab 9 years, 5 months ago
        Yes I am - the type who have tirelessly sought to purged out all traces of scientific rigour from social psychology since the 1970s. Especially the ones who utter the words 'critical perspective'. This has infected social psychology, the virus has since spread into other branches of psychology and social work, and is now infecting even business and economics.
        'Critical Perspective' is a brand, and amounts to a euphemism for an insidious extreme left wing feminist collectivism which seeks to wipe out all remaining traces of individual glory. Its basic message is "Stop! Hold back! What you're doing might offend someone, somewhere."
        Coming to a university near you! :(
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 9 years, 5 months ago
    I am neither a biologist nor a doctor. I do not know
    about people's being born into the wrong sex. The
    idea is very bizarre, but freaks do exist; I saw a
    girl once who had no nose,and looked as if she
    had been born that way. But I think that even if
    this does occur, and you need to have a sex-
    change operation, until such operation occurs,
    you are obligated to stick with the sex that your
    body has, as far as regards public toilets, etc.,
    and should not expect to go into the other sex's
    bathroom until the operation has been done.
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    • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 5 months ago
      I was cheated by life. I grew up striving to be six feet tall I made it but only for a year or so then I started shrinking. Now I'm 5'' 10" So that said how can I mutilate my body up to six feet again? David Atkins where are you know there is a real and profitable issue?
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