subjectivism
[suh b-jek-tuh-viz-uh m]
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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.
Origin of subjectivism
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Criticism has similarly its three constitutive factors, rationalism, subjectivism, immanence.
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'Norman Kemp Smith
In so far as subjectivism reduces reality to states of knowledge, such as perceptions or ideas, it is phenomenalism.
The Approach to PhilosophyRalph Barton Perry
We have already seen, in the Sophists, the phenomenon of subjectivism leading to scepticism.
A Critical History of Greek PhilosophyW. T. Stace
None the less Kants subjectivism finds one of its most decided expressions in A 114.
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'Norman Kemp Smith
It opens up boundless possibilities of subjectivism in a man who was apparently only too matter-of-fact.
Edward Caldwell MooreEdward Moore
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