Theory of Subjective Evaluation

Subjective evaluation has a fundamentally asymptotic structure. As evaluative competence increases, more disagreement can be explained, corrected, or resolved by uncovering evaluative structure. But no matter how far a non-omniscient evaluator takes this process, they can never prove that the remaining disagreement is truly irreducible; they can never prove that no further accessible structure remains. True subjectivity can therefore only be approached by a non-omniscient evaluator, never conclusively established. Accordingly, what appears irreducibly subjective to human evaluators is always partly a reflection of the current limits of evaluative access.