Posted: Feb 10, 2018 4:02 pm
Fallible wrote:Destroyer wrote:Thommo wrote:Assuming that there is or is not a fact of a subjective feeling is the difference here.
It's quite possible that a sophisticated enough brain scan (or at a less formal level observation of behaviours like people saying they are happy) is enough to allow other people to verify whether or not someone is happy, for example.
If a fact can be verified, then it certainly can be an objective fact. If it can't be verified then you're down to a philosophical commitment, and in truth neither can be definitely shown.
What is required for objectivity is solid universal corroboration.
If I read a book but no one sees me do so, is my having read the book subjective?
I have already thoroughly explained the difference between subjective and objective.
This will be my last post on the subject.