After reading the book and discussing the concept of Subjective and Objective claims with my mother I have a better understanding for what they truley mean. I am going to use a example to help explain better how I see it. I have a brand new three month old daughter, and I truley believe that she is the most beautiful little person in the world.When I hold her I just can not picture any other child as beautiful as my daughter.When I show her to my friends boyfriend he lookes at her and dosent say anything,he thinks she is just an average newborn baby.When he gets home he tells his girlfriend he dosnt think that my baby was anything special.
The subjective part of this claim would be my thought that my daughter is the most beautiful baby in the world.My thoughts that my daughter is more beautiful than other babys is a biased claim and it either true or false beased on my own opinion.
The objective claim would be the boyfriends thought that the baby is nothing special.This is objective because it is neither true or false, and weather or not it is true of false dose not depend on what anyone else thinks.
Wow I think that's amazing that you have a little 3 month old daughter and I bet she is as beautiful as you say she is. I understand what you mean when saying your claim is biased because you are her mother and of course you are going to think she is the most amazing and beautiful baby in the world. I also get why your friend's boyfriend's claim is the objective claim, some boys just don't get what the big deal is with babies but I'm sure once he has children of his own his thoughts will be just like yours.
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