#26 - CR, Except, Purpose/Function, Must Be True

[miriamson07]

I am not sure how we know that answer choice B is true. The passage says “ But philosophers loyal to subjectivity are not persuaded by appeals to science when such appeals conflict with the data gathered by introspection.” But I don’t think that necessarily means subjective evidence is FAVORED. I do think it means philosophers who believe in subjectivity think science isn’t always correct when science and philosophy conflict. But to say those philosophers favor subjective evidence in those cases goes a step further. Perhaps we can say B is true because the passage says these philosophers are “loyal” to subjectivity, allowing us to reasonably infer that they would prefer a philosophical approach when philosophy and science conflict?

[Adam Tyson]

If they are not persuaded by appeals to science (objective data) when that data conflicts with data gathered through introspection (subjective data), then they are preferring the subjective data. They will, being loyal to subjectivity, trust the subjective data and reject the objective data. Otherwise they aren't very loyal, are they?

Subjectivist: The subjective data says X is true

Objectivist: The objective data says X is not true

Subjectivist: I'm not persuaded by that data. I still say X is true.