The Objective Status of Subjective Facts

Metaphysica: International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics 24 (2):175-179 (2023)
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Abstract

Some facts are objective. Some facts are subjective. Subjective facts are personal facts about individuals. It is the purpose of this short note to suggest that subjective facts are in fact objective facts about us. This applies not just to facts involving relations to entities that are independent of us, but to our tastes. It is an objective fact about us that we have the tastes that we do though there may be no objective matter of fact that our tastes reflect or fail to reflect.

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Howard Sankey
University of Melbourne

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