ABSTRACT
When we hear a speaker assert that the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet high we may note that it is an objective statement. But if he begins to speak of evil and good and loyalty-to speak, that is, in high-order abstractions-we know that he is onto maps, opinions, and subjectivity. A test to discriminate the objective from opinion and subjectivity is to add the phrase “to me” (or “to him”) to the statement. “This is evil” can then be heard as “This is evil to me.”
