Objectivity is not what you think it is. The currently popular notion of objectivity is captured in the phrase: "But, this is an objective fact!" By which we mean to signal indubitability. Final certainty. Now, this is precisely what objectivity is not about. To keep you in suspense, let me tell you a little about the uniqueness of the human language:
(Non-human) animals do have their languages. Indeed, animal language does share important functions with human language. Your dog certainly can signal and respond in ways that may be legitimately regarded as linguistic expressions. However, there are functions of language that are unique to human beings. The descriptive function, on the lowest level. Discounting the most rudimentary capacity to describe things, animal language does not comprise a descriptive function: your horse will not be able to describe the shortest route from Crete, Nebraska to Kaiserslautern, Germany.
With the development of a sophisticated descriptive function, human language made it possible to compare descriptions, giving rise to notions of correctness and falsehood, truth and untruth, from which the next higher function of human language evolved: the argumentative function, the ability to represent differences of opinion effectively. Related to this function is the next higher function, again entirely unique to human beings, the critical function, the ability to corroborate and refute arguments, analyse, assess and evaluate them (as consistent or contradictory, in a way that we are entitled to distinguish as scientific.)
By contrast, animals are trapped within their subjectivity. It is the unique privilege of human beings to make their subjectivity the OBJECT OF A CRITICAL DEBATE: That is objectivity, the subjecting of one's inner considerations to the affirmation, scrutiny and challenging by other minds - which incidentally, at once links the single, subjective mind up with a hyper-intelligence consisting of the experience etc. of theoretically all other human beings, living and dead, if we assume literacy and the cultural achievement of a written language.
Objectivity is not about certainty. To the contrary, it is about creative destruction, it enables mankind to constantly hone and often revolutionise its conception of reality and (approximate) truth.
Man does not have knowledge, does not posses "objective" knowledge in the sense of the idea that vulgar conceptions of science (as taught in school) suggest. Man is dealing with conjectural knowledge - good thing, for that kind of knowledge is open to growth and amendment and most impressive approximations toward truth. Uniquely, man is equipped to deal with a fruitfully uncertain intellectual environment; in fact, via the argumentative and critical functions of human language, man makes objectivity a project of intrinsic and never ending uncertainty.
That is what Socrates meant when he claimed: "I know that I do not know."
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