Wednesday, February 2, 2011

The Subjective world.

When engaging in conversations with other individuals, people always tend to throw out their own claims. I may agree or disagree with their claims on certain ideas, but as I thoroughly the investigated the differences between subjective and objective claims, I tend to realize how much subjective claims are thrown into world coming out of almost every human mouth. Subjective claims are claims that one may tend to make either true or false, but has their own personal standards or personal opinions put in to it. For example, a lot of my friends and myself are huge Manny Pacquiao fans and we all claim that he is the best boxing fighter in the world. Stating that Manny Pacquiao is the best boxing fighter in the world is a subjective claim because we set the claim like it's our own personal opinion. We may back up our personal opinion with evidence to make others agree with us as well, but the claim is still subjective. An objective claim that we can state about Manny Pacquiao is that he is ranked as the number one pound for pound boxer. This is an example of an objective claim, whether it's true or false, because the statement doesn't depend on what other people may think. If one says that Floyd Mayweather should be ranked as the number one pound for pound fighter, then that is a subjective claim. But this can be turned to an objective claim when one says that Floyd Mayweather is ranked as the number one pound for pound fighter. So if one makes claim with their own personal opinion than their claim would be subjective as it is personal.

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