A Subjective claim is based on one’s personal standards. The claim can be either true or false depending on the standards (what they think/feel/believe) of the person making a claim. This weekend I heard various subjunctive and objective claims among my friends and co-workers at work. Last Friday I hesitated to go out with my friends because I felt it was too late and I wanted to get a good night rest for a long day of work the next day. I stated, “I think I want to stay in tonight, it’s already late”. My subjective claim seemed invalid to my friends since 11:40 PM seemed “early” too them. In my position, I felt that it was already late to go out especially having to get up early for work the next morning.
An objective claim is one that is not subjunctive meaning it does not depend on one’s personal standards. An objective claim that I heard recently came from a conversation from my roommate. She stated, “We are out of paper towels”. The claim had nothing to do with our personal standards and how we felt, believed, or thought. It was just in fact a true claim and imposed that buying more paper towels would be a good idea.
An objective claim is one that is not subjunctive meaning it does not depend on one’s personal standards. An objective claim that I heard recently came from a conversation from my roommate. She stated, “We are out of paper towels”. The claim had nothing to do with our personal standards and how we felt, believed, or thought. It was just in fact a true claim and imposed that buying more paper towels would be a good idea.
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ReplyDeleteI have to agree with both your subjective and objective examples. Friends will always be there, but they have to realize that we all have our own priorities. Everyone has different schedules, therefore we cannot be there for everyone. Its about time management. Once we get our school and work stuff completed, we can go out and relax. Plus, it feels good to be productive.
Your objective example is impressive. With my house mates and I, we depend on each other when something at the house runs out. Sometimes we don't restock on stuff till we go shopping. Which can go for weeks. However, toilet paper is not the concern. We run out of food because of visitors. Our snacks are always gone, sometimes our daily food too. This is difficult because we can't shop for food everyday. College life is expensive! Asking our friends to buy food for the house would be ideal. Sooner or later it will happen.