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I see you have cleverly noticed there is a 3D object in the meme image that is casting both projections.
This argument is one that is very, very difficult to have because it veers too closely to people's first principles.
On one side, we have people who know they are forced by reason to believe in all truths that appear before them.
And on the other, we have people who have decided they will choose to believe in all truths that appear before them.
Like, it's just a semantic difference. Nobody on the subjectivity side, nobody rational anyway, disagrees with the concept of gravity, we are just simply aware of our power as fallible human beings to destructively choose not to.
That said, there is something very dangerous about being in the second group of people, but thinking you're among the first. And frequently, it becomes a problem when science brushes up against cultural fields it has more trouble explaining.
It is not always possible to see the 3D object. The ability to recognize that two groups can both be 'correct', like in a Newtonian way, even when they disagree with each other is a very useful skill.
Yeah, let's not try to apply the scientific method to social problems, that can only end badly!
But let's not apply absolute relativism to science unless we want to end up with climate denialism.
Cheers!
Are you being sarcastic? The scientific method is still useful, you just have to know what its limits are.
I have no earthly idea what you're talking about. Please, inform my subjective experience.
Look at the picture above us. One group describes the shape's projection as a circle, and they are correct. The other group describes the shape's projection as a square, and they are correct. The only thing I'm doing is describing a worldview that is accomodating of these two perspectives.