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Objectivism vs. Subjectivism

Objectivism and Subjectivism Definitions

Objectivism

(Philosophy) One of several doctrines holding that all reality is objective and external to the mind and that knowledge is reliably based on observed objects and events.

Subjectivism

The quality of being subjective.

Objectivism

An emphasis on objects rather than feelings or thoughts in literature or art.

Subjectivism

The doctrine that all knowledge is restricted to the conscious self and its sensory states.

Objectivism

Objectivism A school of modernist poetry emphasizing the poem itself as object, rather than focusing on its ostensible content.

Subjectivism

A theory or doctrine that emphasizes the subjective elements in experience.
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Objectivism

The state of being objective; objectivity.

Subjectivism

Any of various theories holding that the only valid standard of judgment is that of the individual. For example, ethical subjectivism holds that individual conscience is the only appropriate standard for moral judgment.

Objectivism

Moral objectivism.

Subjectivism

(metaphysics) The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.

Objectivism

(philosophy) Any of several doctrines that holds that all of reality is objective and exists outside of the mind.

Subjectivism

(epistemology) The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition.
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Objectivism

The specific objectivist philosophy created by novelist Ayn Rand, endorsing logical reasoning and self-interest.

Subjectivism

(ethics) The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.

Subjectivism

Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.

Subjectivism

(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience

Subjectivism

The quality of being subjective

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