Thursday, June 17, 2010
Its All A Matter of Fact Versus Opinion
When talking about Subjective and Objective claims it is easiest to think about the difference in terms of opinion versus fact. A Subjective Claim is based on whether something is true or false to a specific person based on his or her own personal beliefs, feelings, and/or values. For example, earlier this week my friend told me that taking this class online will be hard. While there may be some truth to her claim, it is only definitely true for her because of her perception of what is "hard". We might have different study habits and work ethics (which we do ;-D) which makes taking this class online doable for me. On the other hand an Objective Claim is the exact opposite. An objective claim gains its truth-value from the actual fact of the matter. It does not consider personal feelings when determining whether it is true or not. For example, I drive a 2002 Volkswagen Beetle. This claim can be proven true by looking in my driveway to discover a 2002 Volkswagen Beetle :) .
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I find your subjective claim to be a really good example that is used frequently. When ever people ask me what classes are you going to take they will say that the class is really hard or that it was really easy. Same goes with whether the teacher was easy or hard. Their claim, whether it may be true or false is subjective. Every person does have a different standard of easy and hard. I may find a class that they found easy to be hard or a class they thought was hard to be easy. As well as how the easy or hard the teacher was.
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