Concept tag
#subjectivism
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Is “who are you to judge?” a moral position, or just a way of ending the conversation?
At a family dinner last week my older cousin said that a mutual friend had behaved badly by lying to his parents about failing a course. My other cousin said, “Who are you to judge? Morality is subjective anyway.” Everyone went quiet…
Started by Fajar Nugroho4 replies204 views -
I judge wine for a living. Can someone be wrong about what tastes good?
I make small-batch wine in the Adelaide Hills and judge at regional shows, so this question pays my bills. Twice a year I sit at a table with three other judges and we give medals. Every year someone at the cellar door…
Started by Bec Doyle6 replies298 views -
Taylor’s happy Sisyphus shows meaning is purely subjective
I coach high school debate, and I make my students argue the side they don't believe. So here's me arguing a side I'm only half sure of. Richard Taylor's version of Sisyphus goes like this. The gods, in pity, implant in Sisyphus…
Started by Sam Ellery6 replies268 views -
Treating beauty as a matter of personal taste is the odd one out among the world’s traditions
I make hand-drawn batik in Yogyakarta, in a workshop my mother started. Our motifs carry Javanese ideas about harmony and Sufi ideas about longing. When foreign buyers ask me "which pattern do you like best?", I find the question strange. A motif…
Started by Ratna Wulandari5 replies219 views -
QBism says the wavefunction is my degrees of belief. What exactly is it claiming?
I work in Bayesian statistics in Nairobi, mostly credit and health data. A colleague sent me an article about QBism ("quantum Bayesianism", though I gather some proponents now prefer just the acronym) with the note: "your people have taken over physics." As…
Started by Wanjiru Kamau3 replies138 views