"Objectivity requires an active mind and mental work. The objective thinker must exert effort to adhere to reality—to identify the facts, to make the proper connections, to select only the relevant evidence, to hold the entire context, and to apply the appropriate rules of thinking. What could possibly motivate a disinterested party to undertake that level of work? Contrary to popular misconception, objectivity requires that a thinker be interested—that he have some value at stake in any given act of cognition, even if the value is just knowledge of the truth." —Ross England
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:02:43 +0000
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