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Thomas Kuhn Lecture: Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice (1973)

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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The Importance of Subjectivity and Bjectivity

i think the terms objectivity and bjectivity have functioned in this paper. Let me briefly suggest the respects in which i believe language has gone astray. Subjective is a term with several established uses, it is opposed to objective. In another, to judgmental. When my critics describe the idiosyncratic features to which i appeal as subjective, they resort, erroneously, I think, to the second of these sense. They conflate that second sense of subjective with the first. Matters of taste are undiscussable. But short of saying that i lied, he cannot disagree with my report that i liked the film,. or try to persuade me that what i said about my

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