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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 |
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Water turns to ice at cold temperatures - objective knowledge, that's accepted around the world. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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30 Aug 2008 06:03
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