Subjective claims convey one’s feelings or opinions and cannot be proven true or false. The information comes from one’s personal experience, values and mind. Subjective claims usually come from personal preference and beliefs. Even though subjective claims may involve facts, the information may not always be true. One of my good friends believes that rap music is better than country music and this is his subjective claim. We continuously have an ongoing battle about the two genres of music and can never come to an agreement or understanding on the matter. I thoroughly enjoy country music and listen to it everyday, but he cannot stand the sappy lyrics and the country-twang style. He believes that country music is too depressing and he does not see the point of wasting money on country concerts. In my defense, I subjectively claim that rap music is too provocative and only demoralizes many aspects of our society.
Objective claims can be true or false and are usually used when one is making a rational decision. They are unbiased claims and are not based off of one’s beliefs or personal preference. Public material is usually used from objective claims as well. My personal experience with an objective claim happened when my best friend and I were driving to a restaurant Downtown San Jose. She insisted on making a right, but I kept telling her that she was not allowed to because it was a one-way street and the traffic was coming towards us. She insisted on making a right once more before she looked up and saw that the sign said that it was a one-way street.
I would have to agree with you that I do not like rap music either, it is way too crude and harsh. I would have to make another subjective claim and state that I do not like country music either, but again that is just my personal opinion. My best friend also likes country music and we bicker about music quite often. I really liked your objective claim, at first it was a bit confusing, but reading it a second time made me realize how good of an example it was and that objective claims can be used in terms of direction.
ReplyDeleteYou described subjective claims in great detail! I really also enjoyed your story about how you and your friend argue about which music is better.I subjectively claim as well, that country music is better to listen to then any other genre. Your example also helped me understand subjective claims a lot better. You also did an awesome job on describing your Objective claim. You had a very strong definition as well as an adequate example. Great Job Lyss!
ReplyDeleteI agree with britt92 that you described both types of claims wonderfully. Subjective claims can definitely start some heated debates between friends. Everytime a group of my friends used to get together a girl's boyfriend always claimed that men were naturally supposed to rule over women; that relationship did not last.
ReplyDeleteI have to say I prefer rap over country though sorry :)
Your description of subjective and objective claims was very clear. The examples you provided were good and it was easy to tell how each claim was either subjective or objective. I enjoyed reading your subjective claim about music because it is a perfect example of using someones opinions to make a claim and having someone else disagreeing with them. I agree with The Konscience. Subjective claims may begin a good amount of debates between friends, but sometimes they keep the friendship interesting. If the conversations between a relationship were all objective, then it would get boring after a while. Overall good job! :)
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