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To: CarolinaGuitarman
No, I am saying we have no way to know if the evidence is objective until it is tested.

BS. I have objective evidence that you exist right before my eyes. It is self-evident, and it does not have to be "tested" first to be objective.

That anybody would think that subjectivity is the basis of all knowledge claims is illogical.

It is not "illogical." It is a simple statement that may be true or false; reasonable or unreasonable. In this case it is unreasonable, and for that reason I have not made such a statement. I have never believed subjectivity to be the "basis of all knowledge." I have claimed, and continue to maintain, that science cannot entirely divest itself of subjectivity any more than it can entirely divest itself of human observers.

959 posted on 01/06/2006 10:45:06 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew
"BS. I have objective evidence that you exist right before my eyes. It is self-evident, and it does not have to be "tested" first to be objective."

Self-evident *evidence* is by definition not objective. Objective evidence need to be tested.

" I have never believed subjectivity to be the "basis of all knowledge."

I stand corrected. You did say it was the basis for your belief in ID.
961 posted on 01/06/2006 10:51:54 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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