Reply #22: And how is it determined whether facts are objective or not?

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Who decides? Science works with highly controlled situations, "experiments", and even then it's a tricky business and lots of mistakes and wrong turnings are made. Statistics are only as good as your methodology, and cannot tell you anything about individuals, only about imaginary aggregates. You hypothesize that there is such a thing as "the Palestinian People" and that it has certain attributes (like "opposed to suicide bombing", or "favors suicide bombing") and then you attempt to get a "good sample" from the population so you can talk about "what Palestinians think about suicide bombings". But is that an objective fact or a factoid manufactured by your methodology? How do you know the difference, objectively?

In the real world you have none of that, so how do you decide what objective truth is? What rock of certainty do you build your edifice of reason on?