We often say things like, “That’s just your subjective opinion,” or “From a subjective point of view…”
But what do we actually mean by “subjective”?
When we say, “That’s your subjective view,” it often carries a slightly negative tone.
So then, why is “objective” usually considered better?
Is subjectivity really something vague and unreliable? And is objectivity really something solid and true?
Or… does “objective” even truly exist?
What do you think?
Because in this example, it is. If the subjective statement read “To me, it feels too hot in here”, it would be equally correct.
Subjective statements themselves are not the issue, they become problematic when treated as objective truths.
That’s a really clear way to distinguish them, and I agree that confusion happens when subjective statements are treated as objective facts.
But from a different perspective, what we call “objective” might not be something independent of subjectivity in the first place.
In the SIEP framework, reality isn’t something that exists fully formed and then gets described. It emerges when a deeper layer of subjectivity (Absolute Subjectivity) intersects with an observer’s frame (Relative Subjectivity), and only becomes “fixed” when coherence is achieved.
So what we call “objective facts” are actually stabilized results of this coherence process, rather than something fundamentally separate from subjectivity.
In that sense, the issue isn’t that subjective statements become problematic when treated as objective — but that we’re already inside a system where the “objective” itself is generated through structured subjectivity.