<snip>
What Thomas Nagel submits the truth-claim "everything is subjective" to
is a combination of the "two horns of a dilemma" argument (either the
statement itself is objective or it is subjective; there is no
third-term wiggle room either between or beyond the touching horns of
these two inclusive alternatives) combined with a demonstration of the
self- contradictorynature of each. Any objective claim that 'everything
(including, necessarily, the statement itself) is subjective" refutes
itself by its own objective existence, yet to relegate the claim itself
to subjectivity removes any claim to truth from the statement itself and
relegates it to opinion, or belief.
<snap>
[Blunderov once again ventures where angels fear to tread]
No wiggle room? Why is it permitted that the words "objective" and
"subjective" are used as if their respective truth values are
"absolutely true" and "absolutely false"?
It seems possible to me that a thing might be true from one perspective
only, or it might be true from more than one, so a thing may be "more
true" or "less true" as well as "true" or "not true".
[Blunderov now resumes construction of his air-raid bunker]
Warm regards
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