The scientific fact that 'Water is H2O' is also 'popular' because even school kids will accept that but at the same time it is objective.Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2023 10:39 am Something is objective if it wins a popularity contest, right. I'm really not on board with any of the ways you choose to use language, I can't see any point to using the word this way outside of crafting ways to confuse people.
There's already an adjective for beliefs that are held by a lot of people, and it's not "objective". It's "popular". If I get my towel book published and a lot of people believe it, the belief isn't "objective", it's "popular" or "common", or even "ubiquitous" if it gets popular enough, but none of those things are synonyms with "objective". There's no reason to take the word "objective" and make it a synonym with "popular", when the word "popular" already exists
I do not make "objective" synonymous with "popular" merely on the words alone.
The critical criteria for objectivity in my case is the presence of a human-based FSR-FSK.
Many things can be popular, common, or even 'ubiquitous' and yet are objective.
The USD dollar is common and popular but is considered 'objective' because of the presence of a FSK underlying its existence.