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Example: "Arguing with a flat-earther, I hit the Reality Demarcation Problem. I cited satellite photos. He said they're CGI by a global cabal. I was appealing to a consensus reality built by science; he was appealing to a counter-reality built by conspiracy. There was no shared foundation to even start the debate. The 'real world' wasn't a fixed stage; it was the prize in the argument."
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Example: "Two scientists saw the same data curve. One called it random noise; the other, a significant signal. The Objectivity Demarcation Problem is that their prior beliefs—their subjective 'priors'—dictated where they drew the line. Their argument wasn't about the data, but about where to place the demarcation between objective pattern and subjective illusion. Even statistics, our tool for objectivity, requires a subjective choice: the p-value threshold."
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