Objectivity Is Possible
...iew one’s own experiences from outside, as events in the world. If this is possible, then others can also conceive of those events and one can conceive of the experiences of others, also from outside. Any experience can be thought about and known to have occurred not only from the point of view of its subject but from other points of view, at least if they are sufficiently similar in type to that of the subject.” To think in this way we are using a general idea of subjective points of view, of which we visualize an exact occurrence and an exact appearance. It is this general sense of the compassionate subjectivity of the mind’s eye that takes us outside of ourselves into the possession of an objective theory of mind, that allows each person to place himself among the contents of the world. Objectivity is a means of understanding. To obtain a more objective understanding of some feature of the world, we walk back from our view of it and form a new idea which has that view and its relation to the world as its object. In other words, we situate ourselves in the world that is to be understood. The old view is then considered an appearance, more biased than the new view. The process can be repeated to give a more objective idea. Objectivity is the act of referencing reality in shaping the truth. It is the act of founding one's knowledge on reality, and ma...