You are objectively right. You are objectively wrong.
Definitions.
All good arguments start with stable definitions.
Notice that this article however, is marked with "Philosophy".
Throw your dictionary aside.
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Please know that I come at this from a place where I wish to incite thought. Not as an arrogant asshole.
Do also note, I discuss this related to material things. This does not include theology.
I wish by the end of this you do as I do daily and question.
Question reality. Question beliefs. Question normals. Question why. Ask why. Ask, why is it the way that it is.
Because by always asking why, you know why not.
I am objectively right.
I am.
I have and always will be.
I am objectively wrong.
I am.
I have and always will be
Perception is reality.
These are powerful words.
What you perceive something to be is truth.
It is true whether or not other people also see it.
If you are colorblind and I ask you what color the dress is (the one that I perceive to be green) you see blue.
You are correct.
To your entire reality the dress is blue. And you are objectively right.
You are also objectively wrong.
To me. To my reality. To my entire existence that dress is green.
And I am right.
That is just subjectivity.
Counterpoint for myself. (as I quite like to understand the full range)
By the book, objectiveness is the way that something appears in a way uninfluenced by perception.
Objective is the science behind something, and just because of the way you looked at something doesnt change that.
And that does hold true to an extent. That is by the book. In technicality, perfectly sound.
However, I question the book.
I wish to redefine.
You say objectivity is the truth independent of perception... But how do you access it without perception?
Perception is reality.
Until that concept sinks in this is, as most philosophical conversations are, confusing.
Arguing against myself more.
But then again, just because all knowledge starts with perception doesnt mean theres no difference between subjective experience and objective reality what seems true to just you is subjectivity, what holds up under scrutiny from many perspectives is objectivity
Subjective != Objective.
Going on those claims, the claim that something is “objective” is always a human claim, made from within perception.
Therefore, objectivity is not perceptionless, it's just perception in consensus.
In that consensus still lies perception.
Perception is reality.
Yes, we can approximate "objectively" through repeatable experiments, general agreements, and consistency that something is "objective".
Yet then, we are just saying “Given our shared ways of seeing, this holds up.”
Key word, seeing.
Shared ways of seeing are still rooted in seeing which is a form of perception.
That's why I argue that someone can be “objectively right” within their own perceptual framework.
If their experience is internally consistent, coherent, and functional, it's real to them in a way that matters.
You can't, and are in no place, to disprove their reality, only show that it diverges from your objective truth.
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So if all knowledge begins in perception, and even our most trusted “objective” truths are just those that hold up across shared perception, then “you are objectively right” simply means: Your perception is valid, coherent, and internally true. Within the world you occupy, it functions as reality.
And if perception is what defines reality, not as illusion, but as the very medium through which reality is known, then that internal coherence is objectivity.
Not universal objectivity, not collective objectivity, but personal objectivity.
You are objectively right.
Not because your view is the same as mine, but because it holds together truthfully within your perceptual world.
To deny that would be to claim that only the vision of a majority counts as truth. And if truth is nothing more than consensus, then the entire idea of “objective reality” was a democracy all along. And you my friend, voted differently.
So yes.
You are objectively right.
You are objectively wrong.
Just not in the same world that I am.