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It Is Possible To Have Objective Knowledge
To understand something one has to rely on his own experience and culture , then is it possible to have objective knowledge?
 somesh  30 Aug 2008 06:03
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Ideas of objective knowledge include that of medical tests, using double-blind, blind and open tests using placebos. Also medicines can come from herbs, which can originate from different cultures, hence understanding from experience and culture. History uses objective knowledge, as the understanding of a historical event can be changed through the views of your peers or teachers, nationality or culture. Ethical judgements are related to objective knowledge, such as that of the laws of different cultures.

However... Culture makes you personally bias, therefore culture suggests you cannot have objective knowledge?

Here are two arguments for OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE
 
 namdoogp  26 Oct 2008 18:42
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Water turns to ice at cold temperatures - objective knowledge, that's accepted around the world.
 
 Balance_92  05 Sep 2008 12:16
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In science, objectivity is attainable if more than one person can gather the same results from a single experiment. For example, the Sun “rising” in the East and “setting” in the West is an objective fact. Anyone who watches the sunrise and sunset can successfully demonstrate this fact as well. Now, the people who have demonstrated this fact may have different reasons for the Sun behaving in such a manner, but this doesn't change the fact that the Sun does indeed “rise” in the East and “set” in the West (a phenomenon now objectively known to be due to the Earth’s tilt and rotation on its axis, which can also be objectively demonstrated through physics).
 
 Hizashi  30 Aug 2008 20:23
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I think so, although I understand the claim that you're never really free from the influence of the society around you. Maybe it helps to think of subjectivity and objectivity as a sliding scale. We may strive for objectivity but it's seldom we reach all the way to that far side of the scale. But yes, it can happen. Mathematical observations like Kirsty08 said are an example of the farthest side of the objective scale.
 
 Grenache  30 Aug 2008 12:09
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Since we're all a construct of our own imaginations, and the elusive nature of reality itself is the subject of many debates, knowledge will always be filtered through the lens of subjectivity.
 
 grokit  30 Aug 2008 23:42
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Wrong Side (sorry)

Mathematical knowledge is objective. In every culture one object add another object means there will be two objects.
 
 Kirsty08  30 Aug 2008 09:26
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 math isn't knowledge. Knowledge is knowing aka know ledge? Now knowing formulas is knowledge but 2+2 is logic. I can know all the capitals of every country and still not be able to do math. Knowing what 2 is equal to is knowledge. Being able to add it to itself is logic. Also can you name something other then math that's concrete that's objective?
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 30 Aug 2008 13:55
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