Objective

Referring to anything that is independent of a person's experience, state of mind, and worldview.

Knowledge, beauty (Aesthetics), and Morality are objective despite Subjective disagreement. Objectivity does not mean certainty — objective truths can be known only conjecturally and improved through Criticism.

Connections

• •Contrasts with Subjective — but not opposed to it
• •Knowledge is objective — true regardless of who holds it
• •Morality is objective — right and wrong are not mere opinion
• •Aesthetics is objective — beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder
• •Objectivity is compatible with fallibility — conjectures about objective truths can be wrong
• •Critical Rationalism is the method for approaching objective truth
• •Bigotry fails to engage with objective merit