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Monday 5 March 2018

Objectivity is nice if you can get it


There are of course counter-examples. "I had a dream last night about ostrich racing" (which, as it happens, is absolutely true). "I thought Black Panther was excellent" (also absolutely true). Can I prove it ? No. Does that make me a liar or a fraud ? Also no.

Of course the meme is about positions for which things can actually be measured and objectively tested. And there are things which we know which we cannot measure or objectively test, which is annoying but true anyway.
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  1. Winchell Chung5 March 2018 at 16:10

    However I suspect that the meme above was inspired by the situation in the States with the alarming rise in gaslighting.

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