Not that you were, but I don't quite understand why people get so caught up on this fact. There are objective facts about the nature of reality, and we are all (or at least competent practitioners in the field) are thoroughly convinced that we have identified a subset of these facts.
These presumed facts have helped us do things like go to the moon and build skyscrapers, but then someone comes along with the old "but how do you actually know" argument of a college freshman, and then we get into a conversation about the potential social relativism of math.
All the while, people will see a half-assed psychology study with a questionable procedure, weak at best, erroneous at worst statistics and therefore tenuous at best conclusions, and this study is taken to be "true" and might legitimately impact notable institutions. Yet when we're talking about extremely complicated topics that exist on the edge of the horizon of human intuition, no matter how obvious the impact some people just refuse to accept things as objective simply because they fail to intuitively understand them.
Foundational fields like mathematics and physics are as objective as we can get. If you don't accept that, your belief about what is objectively true ends at cogito ergo sum and that's that. This has always been such a pointless conversation in my mind.
These presumed facts have helped us do things like go to the moon and build skyscrapers, but then someone comes along with the old "but how do you actually know" argument of a college freshman, and then we get into a conversation about the potential social relativism of math.
All the while, people will see a half-assed psychology study with a questionable procedure, weak at best, erroneous at worst statistics and therefore tenuous at best conclusions, and this study is taken to be "true" and might legitimately impact notable institutions. Yet when we're talking about extremely complicated topics that exist on the edge of the horizon of human intuition, no matter how obvious the impact some people just refuse to accept things as objective simply because they fail to intuitively understand them.
Foundational fields like mathematics and physics are as objective as we can get. If you don't accept that, your belief about what is objectively true ends at cogito ergo sum and that's that. This has always been such a pointless conversation in my mind.