Only narratives can reflect the experience of objectivity: effective persuasion Available to Purchase

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the differences between objective language and narratives and how differences affect rhetoric.

– Conceptual implications are drawn from an analysis and discussion of the literature in the fields of autopoiesis, meanings and narratives.

– Only narratives convey the experience of objectivity, which makes them more effective to persuade people to change than just providing “objective” data and explanatory knowledge.

– The paper discusses how the projection of meaning is not an experience but knowledge. Meaning is experienced as an empirical property of the perceived.