subjectivism
Americannoun
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Epistemology. the doctrine that all knowledge is limited to experiences by the self, and that transcendent knowledge is impossible.
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Ethics.
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any of various theories maintaining that moral judgments are statements concerning the emotional or mental reactions of the individual or the community.
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any of several theories holding that certain states of thought or feeling are the highest good.
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noun
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the meta-ethical doctrine that there are no absolute moral values but that these are variable in the same way as taste is
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any similar philosophical theory, for example, about truth or perception
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any theological theory that attaches primary importance to religious experience
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the quality or condition of being subjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of subjectivism
First recorded in 1855–60; subjective + -ism
Example Sentences
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Popper blamed Bohr, whom he knew “very well,” for having introduced subjectivism into physics.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 25, 2018
If this linguistic shift from judgment to opinion isn’t creeping subjectivism, it’s certainly creeping tolerance.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2013
It was this distinction that enabled science to develop by clearing away the subjectivism of sensual imprecision.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2011
These feelings-behind-policy, this Great Power subjectivism, often arises spontaneously from pictures, either still photographs or television clips, that are mainlined directly into the democracy's emotional bloodstream without the mediation of conscious thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
But as this term may perhaps lead to some misunderstandings, I will use it as little as possible here, and speak rather of subjectivism, and the subjectivistic point of view.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
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