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%PERCEPTIONS OF OBJECTIVITY 800509
Many scientists feel very strongly about the value of
objectivity. They find it all but impossible to
sympathize with those people who do not feel that
objectivity is of ultimate importance, even though such
people are more numerous than people who feel objectivity
is of ultimate value and importance---to the exclusion of
respect for strong feelings. Objectivity oriented
scientists tend to feel that those people who feel that
feelings are of great importance are too subjective to be
respected. Such scientists tend not to respect subjective
bases for making value judgments, and so find it difficult
to own subjective bases for making the value judgment that
objectivity is ultimately valuable.
The subjective bases for feeling that objectivity is
of ultimate value---are to be discovered in the subjective
lives of the people who make such judgments. They
probably have not had subjective experiences which
encourage them to value intimate personal relationships
and subjective/reflexive communications. They may have
experienced threats, anxiety, fear, and other negative
emotions in association with non-objective realities---and
so are aversive towards them. They may have experienced
certainty, security, order, and success in the realm of
objective realities---and so tend towards activities in
which they have had positive subjective experiences. We
all tend to value relationships which are associated with
our feeling good---about ourselves, others, and
activities. Judgments about the values of objective and
subjective relationships tend to be based upon how people
feel---as much as upon objective analysis of objective
data.
How then are objective scientists to regard their
feelings about objectivity? Is it possible to be
objective about your own feelings about objectivity? Can
a person divorce self from self's own feelings---in order
to perceive one's own feelings without bias? Is objective
self perception any more free of bias than is
subjective/reflexive self perception? Is it logically
possible to be objective about self without doing violence
to self? Can self analyze self without violating self?
Can theses questions be dealt with objectively and without
bias?
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