To understand something you need to rely on your own experiences and culture. Does this mean that it is impossible to have objective knowledge? In philosophy, an objective fact means a “truth that remains true everywhere, regardless of the situation, and is independent of human prejudices or emotions.” A subjective fact, on the other hand, is "true only under certain conditions, at certain times, in certain places or for certain people". If one relies on one's own experiences and culture to understand something, this is generally considered subjective knowledge, since it involves the involvement of circumstantial situations. However, it is not impossible to achieve objective knowledge, due to the way our knowledge is acquired. Total objective knowledge is obtainable, for example, when reading non-fiction texts for factual information to gain knowledge about something. However, understanding something solely through objective knowledge does not allow for a full understanding of that topic. Through objective knowledge, you get purely textual information on a particular topic. In physics class, when I study Hooke's law, I might get the realization that "the applied force equals the spring constant multiplied by the amount of extension within the spring" from my textbook. This is objective information because I am absorbing new information without prior experience or room for possible bias. But in order to understand the concept, I need to gain experience applying this concept to problems. I may have knowledge of Hooke's law, but I have no idea how to literally apply the concept. To understand something you need to rely on your own experiences and culture; but it is still possible to have objective knowledge... middle of paper... and communicate with each other. Very rarely do we rely solely on our experiences and culture to validate something as knowledge. For example, when someone writes an article about the “biological behavior of bats,” are they simply relying on their own experiences? NO! While you may draw on your own experiences hiking in the woods, you will also draw on the experiences of others. These other sources of experiences can be recorded in books, diaries, and videos or television programs. Or, when we do a project on human psychology, you often interview many people about their experiences, rather than drawing on what you, personally, may have experienced. This shows that in order for anything to be objectively credible; you can never rely solely on your experiences. However, once you start drawing on the experiences of others, you get much closer to gaining objective knowledge.