Scientific objectivity requires severing the observer’s connective relationship with the observed

Evidence

My natural inclination was to see relationships, to seek the threads that connect the world, to join instead of divide. But science is rigorous in separating the observer from the observed, and the observed from the observer. Why two flowers are beautiful together would violate the division necessary for objectivity. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 152

Categorization

• XREF: The observer-observed severing echoes the listening-vs-measuring method split threaded through the Soundscape course. — connects to: Statistical objectivity in environmental policy rests on unwarranted assumptions about the physical world — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 15; Plumwood adopts Keller’s dynamic objectivity as the non-dualistic mode of observation — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 463; Modern science relocates the observer inside the observed system (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern science relocates the observer inside the observed system #contradicts (0.83)
• The Other-as-object reinforces the world’s objectivity while the Other-as-look dissolves it #complicates (0.78)