Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Subjective & Objective claims... What's the difference?

A subjective claim is when a claim can be proved to be true or false. It also depends on how another person feels about the claim and how they imagine what your claim means to them. An example of an subjective claim is when I tried convincing one of my good friends to go see the movie “Dear John” with me by telling them that it is almost as good as the movie “The Notebook”, which is one of her all time favorites. Since it is more of an opinion rather than a true fact, it is considered a subjective claim. A objective claim is when the statement is unarguably true. An example of an objective claim is when my friend asked when my birthday is, and I answered my saying, “February 18th”. Since this claim is a fact and is the truth it is considered to be a objective claim.

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