forum for week of 12 September

For a human to behold an ‘objective perception’ seems to be impossible and paradoxical. If the human mind and consciousness is developed and influenced by the environment and their perception of it, the limitations of exposure greatly restrict a human’s ability to perceive. The concept of objectivity would entail knowing everything. This would imply knowledge is definitive and absolute, which is unknown. So as humans "are tied to [their] perceptions, and even if tried and agreed upon by others, [they] can never conceive of objectivity itself."(Tclark66) Then epistemology, along with anything that humans have defined, would be an expression of values and biases.

Does relative objectivity exist? Can one be more objective than another? DEREK