It is important to articulate this principle clearly, because
there is a large difference between saying that there is no
objective fact of the matter and saying we cannot know what the
fact of the matter is. The first is an ontological point. We are
asserting something about the nature of the world. The second is
an epistimological point. We are asserting something about what
we can know. These are very different. To turn, then, to George
Siemens's recent discussion on the objective-subjective
distinction: he writes, "Words and concepts (knowledge and
knowing, meaning and wisdom) are not static in their conception
in the minds of individuals. The does not directly lead to
notions of an abstract (or worse, subjective) nature of the
entities or concepts considered." Quite so. This does not
follow. Because the former is a statement about what we know; it
is an assertion that we do not know, and therefore, we should
not draw an inference about that which we do not know. This
includes both the inference that ther