ABSTRACT
The terms “objective” and “subjective” seem easy to characterize. The world, it is said, contains two classes of things. There are objects out there: trees, stones and clouds, which have properties like weight and shape. Then there are subjects that have a psychological life: me, your dog, their hamster and her pig. An objective assertion refers to a property out there, in the object. A subjective assertion expresses some state of the psychological life of the subject. To say a strawberry has a certain mass is to say something objective. To say one likes the taste of strawberries is to say something subjective.
