Objectivity and 1st Person Subjectivity

[Qoeleth]

An orbit is a gravitationally curved path of an object about a point in space. Going by that widely-accepted definition, the moon orbits the sun and the earth. Since the gravitational force of the moon & sun is greater than that of the earth & moon, the moon orbits the sun more so than it orbits the earth, so that is my slight mistake: I should not have said, “not,” but “more so than.”

Now, this argument just proves my point. The substance of it is how to define the word “orbit” (which, as use of language, depends upon the subject and recepient). The ‘objective’ side (what some matter in space actually does), doesn’t seem to matter as muchas what ‘orbit’ means.

So, the argument, the 'truth being disputed, is (like all ‘truth’) essentially about words…

 

[Andrew_Lorimer]

Hold on tight: words do refer.

If one loses sense of that one finds oneself in a sorry state. “Please help me, I need food” means something objective, and being human we all know the right response.

We need words and the more closely they represent, the more we appreciate them.

Hence true statements.