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TOPIC: ISSUE157 - "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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Since the day the philosophy came into being, the discussion about objective and subjective never creases. On my perspective, it's reasonable in the realm of pure philosophy that no objective observation exists and all the observation is guided by the subjective. However, this theory isn't suitable in the aspect of normal life, especially when its meaning is over-expanded.

Firstly, the situation that no pure objection exists is a necessarily function of people cognition style. People get information about the world through the sensory organ, then transmit it to the brain, the brain recreates an image of the world and then people express it through language. During process of thinking and expressing, the objective observation is inevitable to be affected by the personal experiences, the cognitive level, culture and even the language. For example, with the development of astronomy, we know solar eclipse is just an eclipse of the sun by the moon. But under the constraint of the unenlightened science, ancient people considered the solar eclipse as a mysterious phenomenon, a divine punishment. Clearly, all the fables of the solar eclipse are records guided by the ancient people's fear to the nature. Similarly, things happened in the modern science. The reason of dinosaur extinction is still in discussion, biologists, geographers and astronomers give different answers after their science researches. Observation is guided by the different structures of knowledge here. The strong subjectivity tendency is even more common in the realm of art because art is an absolutely concentrated expression of the personal experience. So if there are a thousand readers, there must be a thousand Hamlets, and Mono Lisa Smile is still a most disputable mystery nowadays. The observation in the art is usually guided by the individual feeling.


What's more, compared to the situation that people struggle to be objective but fail, it's even more terrible that people distort the facts deliberately for their own purpose. In many countries, history taught in the primary and secondary schools has been censored for political reasons at times. To give just a few of many examples: in Japan, mention of the Nanking Massacre has been removed from textbooks; in Russia under Stalin, history was rewritten to conform with communist party doctrine. In such situations, people even have no chance to meet the fact, not mention to the objective observation.


However, it's a unwise choice to take this philosophical reflection as criteria of the normal life for it can disrupt the stabilization of human. If observation is just an illusion, we can not believe what we see and learn, the confidence for life will collapse firstly. If all observation is subjective, there will be no justice, no criterion, even no truth in the society. Human then will fail in the self-doubt deeply.


Luckily, though the philosophy makes precise definition of observation, it seemly doesn't affect the normal life to live without so pure a observation. After all, the observation and subjection are both the methods we cognitive this world.

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1# yjwn1987
Since the day the philosophy came into being, the discussion about objective and subjective never creases (ceases ). On my perspective, it's reasonable in the realm of pure philosophy that no objective observation exists and all the observation is guided by the subjective. However, this theory isn't suitable in the aspect of normal life, especially when its meaning is over-expanded.

Firstly, the situation that no pure objection exists is a necessarily function of people cognition style. People get information about the world through the sensory organ, then transmit it to the brain, the brain recreates an image of the world and then people express it through language. During process of thinking and expressing, the objective observation is inevitable to be affected by the personal experiences, the cognitive level, culture and even the language.这段开头显示阐释了主观观察存在的原因，就是思考以及表达都是主观的载体，所以主观的影响是不可避免的。但是日蚀这个例子似乎不能说明古时候人们对于日蚀的理解是源于思考和表达的主观性，这个例子好像更倾向于说明人们对于事物的理解是受制于科学技术以及社会的发展的。 For example, with the development of astronomy, we know solar eclipse is just an eclipse of the sun by the moon. But under the constraint of the unenlightened science, ancient people considered the solar eclipse as a mysterious phenomenon, a divine punishment. Clearly, all the fables of the solar eclipse are records guided by the ancient people's fear to the nature. Similarly, things happened in the modern science. The reason of dinosaur extinction is still in discussion, biologists, geographers and astronomers give different answers after their science researches. Observation is guided by the different structures of knowledge here. The strong subjectivity tendency is even more common in the realm of art because art is an absolutely concentrated expression of the personal experience. So if there are a thousand readers, there must be a thousand Hamlets, and Mono Lisa Smile is still a most disputable mystery nowadays. The observation in the art is usually guided by the individual feeling.


What's more, compared to the situation that people struggle to be objective but fail, it's even more terrible that people distort the facts deliberately for their own purpose. In many countries, history taught in the primary and secondary schools has been censored for political reasons at times. To give just a few of many examples: in Japan, mention of the Nanking Massacre has been removed from textbooks; in Russia under Stalin, history was rewritten to conform with communist party doctrine. In such situations, people even have no chance to meet the fact, not mention to the objective observation.


However, it's a unwise choice to take this philosophical reflection as criteria of the normal life for it can disrupt the stabilization of human. If observation is just an illusion, we can not believe what we see and learn, the confidence for life will collapse firstly. If all observation is subjective, there will be no justice, no criterion, even no truth in the society. Human then will fail in the self-doubt deeply.


Luckily, though the philosophy makes precise definition of observation, it seemly doesn't affect the normal life to live without so pure a observation. After all, the observation and subjection are both the methods we cognitive this world.
整篇的论述基本都是说主观观察，例证也都在证明主管观察是存在，且不可避免的。没有提及客观观察，但是结尾缺说主客观都必不可少。如果要证明自己的观点，是不是应该也举些例证说明一下客观观察在现实生活中的应用呢