Is everything based on perception or is there an objective right and wrong?

Question

No religious arguments they aren't applicable anyway. Only rational support for your opinion.

Nevermind that question. My question is "does the objective exist or is everything subjective and that creates the objective"?

Answer 1

Solipsism Rules!

- Tina

Answer 2

First of all, the fact that everything is based on perception doesnt negate the fact that there is an objective right or wrong...

but to answer your question...ugh...there is definitely an objective truth or falsity...and that depends on the sentence....

If A and B have multiple interpretations of a given situation, both WILL be true because if you reduce their thoughts to sentences(mind you...these sentences will be pages long), you will see that they are both true because the sentences, even though they DO cohere with objective reality, are ultimately INCOMPLETE to different extents...the way they cohere with objective reality is that the sentences in THEMSELVES are true...but you are looking at parts of the sentence...and this is where objective reality is useful...the way to know which one is objectively true is to complete both sentences...but now BOTH will be true because theyre both the same sentence(notice that ANY sentence is true unless it is apparent IN the sentence that it is illogical)...

so coming back to the 'parts' of the statement, a PART may or may not be true even though the SENTENCE is true AND the sentence is coherent with objective reality...which is kinda hard to imagine...SO i can conclude that the sentences cohering with objective reality is a just a COINCIDENCE every single time it(being right) happens and it HAPPENS every single time a sentence is formed logically...but the longer the sentence the greater is the chance of it having parts that are true to objective reality...

i MAY have made a complete mess there and used circular logic...w/e lol

Answer 3

Well that entirely depends on your view of the world. Descartes argued that nothing in life is provable since life could very well be a dream or hallucination. Since one who is in an altered form of mind cannot realize he is so, there is only one truth that stands to reason: he who thinks the reality into existence must himself exist to do so. So, according to Descartes, no, nothing other than God and self are objective. On the other hand, Plato and Aristotle both shared ideas that are commonly known as the Forms. Aristotle likens everything in life, from objects to ideas, to perfect Forms that we all know before and after life. In that there are perfect models for all things, all things must then be objectively judged based on their similarity to their Forms. Any deviation from true form is instantly recognizable by humans since we have some natural understanding of all the Forms. While we may not be able to understand everything in an entirely objective manner, there are certain truths that should stand to reason. Descartes would have favored the idea that 2 + 2 = 4, and that this equation makes sense to us proves that we are able to look at a limited number of things objectively (he heavily relies upon the arts of math and music). Aristotle would have argued that a chair is a chair, and anything that is not a chair does not resemble the Form of a chair, the objective basis on which we judge all chairs. So, in that we can either understand that we ourselves exist objectively, or that we can compare all things to an objective model, life does have some type of objectiveness to it.

Answer 4

Our computer-brain works on a dualistic basis:
a) consciousness,
b) intuition (unconsciousness).
In a usual daily life all we do is done logically
( often under an influence of our feelings).
We don,t make any discovers.
On the other hand, we (rarely) act intuitionally.
It means:
1) without the participation of the sense organs.
2) without the participation of the logic processes.
When these conditions will be created, then
we act absolutely in a new way.
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Answer 5

hm...i would say there is a mix between the two.
some people do bad things, but they believe that those things are right (and who is to say that they aren't right? it's your own opinion in the first place that they are wrong).
also, i believe that some people thrill themselves on doing bad things. they know what they are doing is bad or that it hurts someone, something, some energy, but they do it anyway because it fills some desire in their soul.

Answer 6

Wrong thinking ... and I say that objectively!

Of course there is a true right and wrong in any cirstumstance if we can find it.

There is still truth ... What really is. .... Simply really, really!

Real.

Jonnie

Answer 7

There is nothing so wrong or right as thinking makes it so.

Answer 8

Interesting...you will die one day, objectively or preception, you will still be dead.

Answer 9

it depends