ABSTRACT

E xistentialist philosophers distinguish between objective and subjective truths. Objective truths are abstract, general, and statistical truths about the way things are in the world and in broad populations of human beings. Subjective truths are about the particular ways individuals experience the world and life in the human condition. To grasp the distinction in an elementary way, you can write out the following simple, valid arguments. Both are valid in the strict sense that their premises are true, and the truth of their conclusions follows logically from the truth of the premises.