According to Henry Sidgwick Sidgwickk, The Methods of Ethics, 1907), we know a priori several self-evident axioms that are objectively true, including axioms of benevolence and justice, and that lead together to the conclusion that each of us ought to do what will bring about the best consequences when their value is known by the ratio of pleasure over pain in them viewed impartially.
And that's objectively true.
(Of course, that's objectively true).
Republicans go beyond patriotism (love of country) to disparagement of other countries and cultures, to the repeated insistence that America is better than other countries in every respect, even when that is objectively not true (see Ignorance, below).
It is not something that is "objectively ascertainable".
The majority argued that it is objectively true that human life begins at conception, and that the state can force doctors to say so.
Alter doesn't appear to be claiming that this is objectively true but, rather, tries to capture the extent to which Ocasio-Cortez has overtaken the national political conversation.
As I point out in my questions, this is not something that the current White House merely "says," making it one more interesting thing that someone says, it is objectively true.
Hugh Prestwood Greenport, N.Y., Oct. 29, 2008 To the Editor: When the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said "it is objectively true that human life begins at conception," it ignored the preponderant position of legal scholars, doctors and members of the clergy who do not believe a fertilized egg is entitled to the full protection of the law enjoyed by a live born infant.
