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Originally Posted by StAnselm  We can't all create our own separate objective worlds. They wouldn't match up. Because they do match, reality is objective. |
The first thing is - you're right. Our worlds frequently do not match up. Reality is indeed full of mismatches. People disagree; have different opinions; make different kinds of decisions even when they are in highly similar situations; vote differently, whether for their company chairman or the President or the next American Idol etc etc,
And lots of people can believe that they are being fair, objective, unbiased etc and yet arrive at quite different conclusions on the exact same matter. People can be at the same place and time doing the same thinig, yet feel very differently about that experience.
So all that points to subjective reality, yes.
And what about the times when reality does match? What about the times when we "objectively" agree on a certain result?
Generally, there is nothing truly "objective" about those situations either. It is merely that a group of people have agreed to adhere to a
subjectively agreed set of methods to evaluate or measure a certain outcome. The same group could agree to change those standards tomorrow. Or another group of people might choose to use those standards, to measure the same kind of outcome. Etc etc