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subjectivism
[ suhb-jek-tuh-viz-uhm ]
noun
- Epistemology. the doctrine that all knowledge is limited to experiences by the self, and that transcendent knowledge is impossible.
- Ethics.
- any of various theories maintaining that moral judgments are statements concerning the emotional or mental reactions of the individual or the community.
- any of several theories holding that certain states of thought or feeling are the highest good.
subjectivism
/ əˈɛɪˌɪə /
noun
- the meta-ethical doctrine that there are no absolute moral values but that these are variable in the same way as taste is
- any similar philosophical theory, for example, about truth or perception
- any theological theory that attaches primary importance to religious experience
- the quality or condition of being subjective
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Derived Forms
- ܲˌپˈپ, adjective
- ܲˌپˈپally, adverb
- ܲˈپ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ·t· noun
- ܲ·t·t adjective
- ܲ·t·t·· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of subjectivism1
First recorded in 1855–60; subjective + -ism
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Example Sentences
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Like their Nazi precursors, the Communist rulers of East Germany scorn the subjectivism and decadence of modernist art.
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Our academic system, from pre-K through graduate school, contrasts science and literature – objectivism and subjectivism, reductionism and holism.
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All subjectivism, all relativism, all criticism, therefore, are baffled in presence of the ego.
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The fault was not wholly in the subjectivism of the movement.
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Dewey favors the naïve standpoint, and affirms that presentative realism is tainted by an epistemological subjectivism.
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