Objective Knowledge

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Objective knowledge is a kind of knowledge.

It is a state of memory, characterised by a presence of mutual consensus about the contents of the memory, among other individuals or intelligent entities.

Objective knowledge arises out of objective experiences.

Usually others have access to similar knowledge, but not exactly the same. It can be easily communicated to the other as others are experiencing something very similar. There is consensus about these similarities, to a large extent, which is significant compared to that of Subjective Knowledge.

Knowledge of experiences like those of objects, people, bodies, worlds etc. are examples of such knowledge. These are mostly physical experiences as conveyed by bodily senses.

It can also be called shared knowledge.

An important point to note here is that - all knowledge is subjective. There is no objective knowledge. This is because all knowledge is based on experience, and all experience is subjective. Whenever there are a good amount of similarities among specific experiences, and there is an agreement among many, i.e. there is a consensus, we label those experiences as objective and we say that I know something which is objective.