Terrapin Station wrote: ↑July 12th, 2020, 7:25 pm
Okay, but there was nothing in your account of objective or balanced (by way of objectivity) views of there needing to be any agreement or coherence with fact. You said that merely considering others' views and reaching conclusions based on that made something balanced and objective.
How is a view formed? It cannot come from thin air. It must be based on fact, or what can be identified as fact. You see dark clouds, and your view is that it will rain. The clouds are the fact. They do not need agreement. Why are there clouds? That is another story. Your view is more appropriate than if there are light clouds in the sky.
Balance is relative, a matter of degree. Perhaps I should say more balanced and less balanced. Perfect balance is rare, not found in The Merchant of Venice. The more you consider diverse views, the less likely will your view be tilted too much to one side, and hence closer to majority opinion, which Is what
balance is about.
Considering others' views and reaching conclusion (view) based on that made something balanced and objective? I have to qualify the statement. If there are a few others, the statement is substantively correct, but if there is only one, then it is not necessarily so since it may be you against him. You have been converted by him? Fine, but it does not mean his view is mode balanced.
Best of all, consider others' views and also your own subjective view in conjunction. If you don't mind, place more weight on your subjective view, unless you are that humble.