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There is no such thing as purely objective observation. All observation is subjective; it is always guided by the observer's expectations or desires.
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What is the standard between objective and subjective observations? There may have different standards, however, the most important standard is whether individual factors such as personal judgment, emotion, background and preference included in observations. I agree with the speaker that there is no such thing as purely objective observations, but I do not think all observation is subjective.
We can hardly be objective when doing observations. There are two representative realms can offer sufficient supports to my standpoint------ art and literature. Observations are seldom purely objective in these two realms. Artists and writers observe the world with their own eyes and consequently, their works reflect variety opinions.
In the realm of art, artists need to melt personal emotions in their works. When we go to a painting show, we can feel the artist's emotion by seeing his or her painting and understand what the artist wants to express. The most important is, after visiting all the works, we have different feelings about different artists and form the initial impression of them. To give audiences dissimilar impressions and express their vary understandings of art, artists using different positions and views to observe things, and then creating vivid works. Therefore, observations in the art realm are subjective and individual factors are needed.
In another realm, the realm of literature, more individual factors are necessary. Literature is the work of creating, writers do not need to honestly reflect facts around them and record what they have seen completely. What matters for them is to truly show readers their values of the world, judgments of some social phenomenon, standards between rights and wrongs, good and bad, that is, writers' own points of view. What is more, during the course of writing, they should use their imaginations, personal experiences, diverse writing skills and even unique backgrounds. If writers observe everything with a objective standpoint, readers surely find little interests in their fictions.
After considering the realms of art and literature, it is not hard for us to say that there is no such thing as purely objective observations, nonetheless, we can not deny that there do exist objectivity in observations, and scientific research is a good illustration. As it is known to everyone, we trust scientists and believe scientific fruits just because science is independent of individual thoughts and accepted by humans. Scientists try their best to explain secrets of nature by a subjective way and avoid individual influence on the research. Human beings have a long history of science, many scientific theories had been modified several times and exhibited their subjectivity and rightness at last. One significant characteristic of science is that it can account for all same questions whenever they happen, wherever they come up. In another words, scientific observations are independent of observer's expectations or desires, and have a long-lasting meaning for humans.
We can draw a conclusion safely after considered all have mentioned above: there is no such thing as purely objective observation just as art and literature, however, objectivity do exist and independent of individual expectations or desires just as scientific observations.
[ Last edited by staralways on 2005-8-4 at 13:25 ] |
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