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                      %COMMUNAL CONSENSUS OBJECTIVE 860805

     A  communal consensus is  not  an  objective  reality
because   it   involves  communal  feelings  as  well   as
cognitions,  that is the "sense" of the term;  it involves
human sensations,  feelings.   A compulsive  dedication to
objectivity will stand in  the way of processes which  are
essential to the formations of a communal consensus,  even
if the community  is a community  of  people dedicated  to
objectivity; assuming that the blockage is not so complete
as to prevent the formations  a  genuine  comm-unity.    A
"community" without a consensus is hardly with unity.

     A  group  of  people can not take  a  census  without
engendering  feelings about the important issues which are
the focus of the  census.   Communal  endeavors have to do
with the community,  not with "other"  than the community.
Communal   endeavors  involve  human  interactions   which
engender feelings, emotions, reflections, etc.

     A  consensus  is participatory reality.   Withdrawing
from participation  in  the feelings of a consensus leaves
no reality to be viewed objectively.   A  consensus has no
reality apart from the participants in the consensus,  and
can  be  known  only to the extent to which a  person is a
participant in the consensus.  This is true even regarding
the  consensus of scientists that objectivity is important
and should be one of the central behavioral characteristic
of scientists participating in the scientific community.

     The reality of objectivity is created by  scientists'
participating in the consensus regarding the importance of
objectivity.  That reality has objective consequences; the
absence of  that  reality  would  have different objective
consequences.     Participants  in  the  consensus   about
objectivity   would   view   such   different    objective
consequences in ways in keeping with their participations.
All  people  are participants  in  the realities which are
most  important to them.   Scientists are participants  in
objective   realities  which  they  create  through  their
dedications  to  objectivity.    Many  of  their  problems
originate in the inability to perceive their participation
objectively   in   keeping   with   their   commitment  to
objectivity as  an exclusively important ideal;  i.e.,  to
the   exclusion   of  promoting  personal   and   communal
integrity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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