CINXE.COM
Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) - Wikipedia
<!DOCTYPE html> <html class="client-nojs skin-theme-clientpref-day mf-expand-sections-clientpref-0 mf-font-size-clientpref-small mw-mf-amc-clientpref-0" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) - Wikipedia</title> <script>(function(){var className="client-js skin-theme-clientpref-day mf-expand-sections-clientpref-0 mf-font-size-clientpref-small mw-mf-amc-clientpref-0";var cookie=document.cookie.match(/(?:^|; )enwikimwclientpreferences=([^;]+)/);if(cookie){cookie[1].split('%2C').forEach(function(pref){className=className.replace(new RegExp('(^| )'+pref.replace(/-clientpref-\w+$|[^\w-]+/g,'')+'-clientpref-\\w+( |$)'),'$1'+pref+'$2');});}document.documentElement.className=className;}());RLCONF={"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy","wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgRequestId":"75e45e4b-dd10-48f6-a75e-5a58cdc06a91","wgCanonicalNamespace":"","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":0,"wgPageName":"Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)","wgTitle":"Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)","wgCurRevisionId": 1258822797,"wgRevisionId":1258822797,"wgArticleId":74146091,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgPageViewLanguage":"en","wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgRelevantPageName":"Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)","wgRelevantArticleId":74146091,"wgIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRestrictionEdit":[],"wgRestrictionMove":[],"wgRedirectedFrom":"Subjectivity","wgNoticeProject":"wikipedia","wgCiteReferencePreviewsActive":false,"wgFlaggedRevsParams":{"tags":{"status":{"levels":1}}},"wgMediaViewerOnClick":true,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":true,"wgPopupsFlags":0,"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en"},"wgMFMode":"stable","wgMFAmc":false,"wgMFAmcOutreachActive":false,"wgMFAmcOutreachUserEligible":false,"wgMFLazyLoadImages":true,"wgMFEditNoticesFeatureConflict":false,"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search": true,"watchlist":true,"tagline":false,"nearby":true},"wgMFIsSupportedEditRequest":true,"wgMFScriptPath":"","wgWMESchemaEditAttemptStepOversample":false,"wgWMEPageLength":30000,"wgInternalRedirectTargetUrl":"/wiki/Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)","wgRelatedArticlesCompat":[],"wgCentralAuthMobileDomain":true,"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":true,"wgSectionTranslationMissingLanguages":[{"lang":"ace","autonym":"Acèh","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ady","autonym":"адыгабзэ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"alt","autonym":"алтай тил","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"am","autonym":"አማርኛ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ami","autonym":"Pangcah","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"an","autonym":"aragonés","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ang","autonym":"Ænglisc","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ann","autonym":"Obolo","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"anp","autonym":"अंगिका","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ary","autonym":"الدارجة","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"arz","autonym":"مصرى","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"as","autonym":"অসমীয়া", "dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ast","autonym":"asturianu","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"av","autonym":"авар","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"avk","autonym":"Kotava","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"awa","autonym":"अवधी","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ay","autonym":"Aymar aru","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"az","autonym":"azərbaycanca","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"azb","autonym":"تۆرکجه","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"ba","autonym":"башҡортса","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ban","autonym":"Basa Bali","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bar","autonym":"Boarisch","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bbc","autonym":"Batak Toba","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bcl","autonym":"Bikol Central","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bdr","autonym":"Bajau Sama","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"be","autonym":"беларуская","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bew","autonym":"Betawi","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bg","autonym":"български","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bho","autonym":"भोजपुरी","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bi","autonym":"Bislama","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bjn","autonym":"Banjar","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"blk", "autonym":"ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bm","autonym":"bamanankan","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bn","autonym":"বাংলা","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bo","autonym":"བོད་ཡིག","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bpy","autonym":"বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"br","autonym":"brezhoneg","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bs","autonym":"bosanski","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"btm","autonym":"Batak Mandailing","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"bug","autonym":"Basa Ugi","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ca","autonym":"català","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"cdo","autonym":"閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ce","autonym":"нохчийн","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ceb","autonym":"Cebuano","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ch","autonym":"Chamoru","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"chr","autonym":"ᏣᎳᎩ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ckb","autonym":"کوردی","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"co","autonym":"corsu","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"cr","autonym":"Nēhiyawēwin / ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ", "dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"crh","autonym":"qırımtatarca","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"cs","autonym":"čeština","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"cu","autonym":"словѣньскъ / ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"cy","autonym":"Cymraeg","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"da","autonym":"dansk","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"dag","autonym":"dagbanli","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"de","autonym":"Deutsch","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"dga","autonym":"Dagaare","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"din","autonym":"Thuɔŋjäŋ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"diq","autonym":"Zazaki","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"dsb","autonym":"dolnoserbski","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"dtp","autonym":"Kadazandusun","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"dv","autonym":"ދިވެހިބަސް","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"dz","autonym":"ཇོང་ཁ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ee","autonym":"eʋegbe","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"el","autonym":"Ελληνικά","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"eml","autonym":"emiliàn e rumagnòl","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"eo","autonym":"Esperanto","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"es","autonym":"español", "dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"et","autonym":"eesti","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"eu","autonym":"euskara","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"fa","autonym":"فارسی","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"fat","autonym":"mfantse","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ff","autonym":"Fulfulde","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"fi","autonym":"suomi","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"fj","autonym":"Na Vosa Vakaviti","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"fo","autonym":"føroyskt","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"fon","autonym":"fɔ̀ngbè","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"fr","autonym":"français","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"frp","autonym":"arpetan","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"frr","autonym":"Nordfriisk","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"fur","autonym":"furlan","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"fy","autonym":"Frysk","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"gag","autonym":"Gagauz","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"gan","autonym":"贛語","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"gcr","autonym":"kriyòl gwiyannen","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"gl","autonym":"galego","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"glk","autonym":"گیلکی","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"gn","autonym":"Avañe'ẽ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"gom","autonym": "गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"gor","autonym":"Bahasa Hulontalo","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"gpe","autonym":"Ghanaian Pidgin","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"gu","autonym":"ગુજરાતી","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"guc","autonym":"wayuunaiki","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"gur","autonym":"farefare","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"guw","autonym":"gungbe","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"gv","autonym":"Gaelg","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ha","autonym":"Hausa","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"hak","autonym":"客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"haw","autonym":"Hawaiʻi","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"he","autonym":"עברית","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"hi","autonym":"हिन्दी","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"hif","autonym":"Fiji Hindi","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"hr","autonym":"hrvatski","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"hsb","autonym":"hornjoserbsce","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ht","autonym":"Kreyòl ayisyen","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"hu","autonym":"magyar","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"hyw","autonym":"Արեւմտահայերէն", "dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ia","autonym":"interlingua","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"iba","autonym":"Jaku Iban","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ie","autonym":"Interlingue","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ig","autonym":"Igbo","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"igl","autonym":"Igala","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ilo","autonym":"Ilokano","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"io","autonym":"Ido","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"is","autonym":"íslenska","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"it","autonym":"italiano","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"iu","autonym":"ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ / inuktitut","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ja","autonym":"日本語","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"jam","autonym":"Patois","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"jv","autonym":"Jawa","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ka","autonym":"ქართული","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kaa","autonym":"Qaraqalpaqsha","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kab","autonym":"Taqbaylit","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kbd","autonym":"адыгэбзэ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kbp","autonym":"Kabɩyɛ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kcg","autonym":"Tyap","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kg","autonym":"Kongo","dir":"ltr"},{ "lang":"kge","autonym":"Kumoring","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ki","autonym":"Gĩkũyũ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kk","autonym":"қазақша","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kl","autonym":"kalaallisut","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"km","autonym":"ភាសាខ្មែរ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kn","autonym":"ಕನ್ನಡ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ko","autonym":"한국어","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"koi","autonym":"перем коми","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"krc","autonym":"къарачай-малкъар","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ks","autonym":"कॉशुर / کٲشُر","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"ku","autonym":"kurdî","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kus","autonym":"Kʋsaal","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kv","autonym":"коми","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"kw","autonym":"kernowek","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"lad","autonym":"Ladino","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"lb","autonym":"Lëtzebuergesch","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"lez","autonym":"лезги","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"lg","autonym":"Luganda","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"li","autonym":"Limburgs","dir":"ltr"},{"lang": "lij","autonym":"Ligure","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"lld","autonym":"Ladin","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"lmo","autonym":"lombard","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ln","autonym":"lingála","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"lo","autonym":"ລາວ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"lt","autonym":"lietuvių","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ltg","autonym":"latgaļu","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"lv","autonym":"latviešu","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mad","autonym":"Madhurâ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mai","autonym":"मैथिली","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"map-bms","autonym":"Basa Banyumasan","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mdf","autonym":"мокшень","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mg","autonym":"Malagasy","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mhr","autonym":"олык марий","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mi","autonym":"Māori","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"min","autonym":"Minangkabau","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mk","autonym":"македонски","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ml","autonym":"മലയാളം","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mn","autonym":"монгол","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mni","autonym": "ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mnw","autonym":"ဘာသာမန်","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mos","autonym":"moore","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mr","autonym":"मराठी","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mrj","autonym":"кырык мары","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ms","autonym":"Bahasa Melayu","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mt","autonym":"Malti","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mwl","autonym":"Mirandés","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"my","autonym":"မြန်မာဘာသာ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"myv","autonym":"эрзянь","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"mzn","autonym":"مازِرونی","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"nah","autonym":"Nāhuatl","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"nan","autonym":"閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"nap","autonym":"Napulitano","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"nb","autonym":"norsk bokmål","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"nds","autonym":"Plattdüütsch","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"nds-nl","autonym":"Nedersaksies","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ne","autonym":"नेपाली","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"new","autonym": "नेपाल भाषा","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"nia","autonym":"Li Niha","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"nl","autonym":"Nederlands","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"nn","autonym":"norsk nynorsk","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"nqo","autonym":"ߒߞߏ","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"nr","autonym":"isiNdebele seSewula","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"nso","autonym":"Sesotho sa Leboa","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ny","autonym":"Chi-Chewa","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"oc","autonym":"occitan","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"om","autonym":"Oromoo","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"or","autonym":"ଓଡ଼ିଆ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"os","autonym":"ирон","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pa","autonym":"ਪੰਜਾਬੀ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pag","autonym":"Pangasinan","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pam","autonym":"Kapampangan","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pap","autonym":"Papiamentu","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pcd","autonym":"Picard","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pcm","autonym":"Naijá","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pdc","autonym":"Deitsch","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pl","autonym":"polski","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pms", "autonym":"Piemontèis","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pnb","autonym":"پنجابی","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"ps","autonym":"پښتو","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"pt","autonym":"português","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"pwn","autonym":"pinayuanan","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"qu","autonym":"Runa Simi","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"rm","autonym":"rumantsch","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"rn","autonym":"ikirundi","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ro","autonym":"română","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"rsk","autonym":"руски","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"rue","autonym":"русиньскый","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"rup","autonym":"armãneashti","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"rw","autonym":"Ikinyarwanda","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sa","autonym":"संस्कृतम्","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sah","autonym":"саха тыла","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sat","autonym":"ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sc","autonym":"sardu","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"scn","autonym":"sicilianu","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sco","autonym":"Scots","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sd","autonym":"سنڌي","dir": "rtl"},{"lang":"se","autonym":"davvisámegiella","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sg","autonym":"Sängö","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sgs","autonym":"žemaitėška","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sh","autonym":"srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"shi","autonym":"Taclḥit","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"shn","autonym":"ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"si","autonym":"සිංහල","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sk","autonym":"slovenčina","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"skr","autonym":"سرائیکی","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"sl","autonym":"slovenščina","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sm","autonym":"Gagana Samoa","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"smn","autonym":"anarâškielâ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sn","autonym":"chiShona","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"so","autonym":"Soomaaliga","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sq","autonym":"shqip","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sr","autonym":"српски / srpski","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"srn","autonym":"Sranantongo","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ss","autonym":"SiSwati","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"st","autonym": "Sesotho","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"stq","autonym":"Seeltersk","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"su","autonym":"Sunda","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sv","autonym":"svenska","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"sw","autonym":"Kiswahili","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"szl","autonym":"ślůnski","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ta","autonym":"தமிழ்","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tay","autonym":"Tayal","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tcy","autonym":"ತುಳು","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tdd","autonym":"ᥖᥭᥰ ᥖᥬᥲ ᥑᥨᥒᥰ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"te","autonym":"తెలుగు","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tet","autonym":"tetun","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tg","autonym":"тоҷикӣ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"th","autonym":"ไทย","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ti","autonym":"ትግርኛ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tk","autonym":"Türkmençe","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tl","autonym":"Tagalog","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tly","autonym":"tolışi","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tn","autonym":"Setswana","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"to","autonym":"lea faka-Tonga","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tpi", "autonym":"Tok Pisin","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tr","autonym":"Türkçe","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"trv","autonym":"Seediq","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ts","autonym":"Xitsonga","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tt","autonym":"татарча / tatarça","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tum","autonym":"chiTumbuka","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tw","autonym":"Twi","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ty","autonym":"reo tahiti","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"tyv","autonym":"тыва дыл","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"udm","autonym":"удмурт","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ur","autonym":"اردو","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"uz","autonym":"oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"ve","autonym":"Tshivenda","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"vec","autonym":"vèneto","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"vep","autonym":"vepsän kel’","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"vi","autonym":"Tiếng Việt","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"vls","autonym":"West-Vlams","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"vo","autonym":"Volapük","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"vro","autonym":"võro","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"wa","autonym":"walon","dir":"ltr"},{"lang": "war","autonym":"Winaray","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"wo","autonym":"Wolof","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"wuu","autonym":"吴语","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"xal","autonym":"хальмг","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"xh","autonym":"isiXhosa","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"xmf","autonym":"მარგალური","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"yi","autonym":"ייִדיש","dir":"rtl"},{"lang":"yo","autonym":"Yorùbá","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"yue","autonym":"粵語","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"za","autonym":"Vahcuengh","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"zgh","autonym":"ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⴰⵡⴰⵢⵜ","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"zh","autonym":"中文","dir":"ltr"},{"lang":"zu","autonym":"isiZulu","dir":"ltr"}],"wgSectionTranslationTargetLanguages":["ace","ady","alt","am","ami","an","ang","ann","anp","ar","ary","arz","as","ast","av","avk","awa","ay","az","azb","ba","ban","bar","bbc","bcl","bdr","be","bew","bg","bho","bi","bjn","blk","bm","bn","bo","bpy","br","bs","btm","bug","ca","cdo","ce","ceb","ch","chr","ckb","co","cr","crh","cs", "cu","cy","da","dag","de","dga","din","diq","dsb","dtp","dv","dz","ee","el","eml","eo","es","et","eu","fa","fat","ff","fi","fj","fo","fon","fr","frp","frr","fur","fy","gag","gan","gcr","gl","glk","gn","gom","gor","gpe","gu","guc","gur","guw","gv","ha","hak","haw","he","hi","hif","hr","hsb","ht","hu","hy","hyw","ia","iba","ie","ig","igl","ilo","io","is","it","iu","ja","jam","jv","ka","kaa","kab","kbd","kbp","kcg","kg","kge","ki","kk","kl","km","kn","ko","koi","krc","ks","ku","kus","kv","kw","ky","lad","lb","lez","lg","li","lij","lld","lmo","ln","lo","lt","ltg","lv","mad","mai","map-bms","mdf","mg","mhr","mi","min","mk","ml","mn","mni","mnw","mos","mr","mrj","ms","mt","mwl","my","myv","mzn","nah","nan","nap","nb","nds","nds-nl","ne","new","nia","nl","nn","nqo","nr","nso","ny","oc","om","or","os","pa","pag","pam","pap","pcd","pcm","pdc","pl","pms","pnb","ps","pt","pwn","qu","rm","rn","ro","rsk","rue","rup","rw","sa","sah","sat","sc","scn","sco","sd","se","sg","sgs","sh","shi","shn","si", "sk","skr","sl","sm","smn","sn","so","sq","sr","srn","ss","st","stq","su","sv","sw","szl","ta","tay","tcy","tdd","te","tet","tg","th","ti","tk","tl","tly","tn","to","tpi","tr","trv","ts","tt","tum","tw","ty","tyv","udm","ur","uz","ve","vec","vep","vi","vls","vo","vro","wa","war","wo","wuu","xal","xh","xmf","yi","yo","yue","za","zgh","zh","zu"],"isLanguageSearcherCXEntrypointEnabled":true,"mintEntrypointLanguages":["ace","ast","azb","bcl","bjn","bh","crh","ff","fon","ig","is","ki","ks","lmo","min","sat","ss","tn","vec"],"wgWikibaseItemId":"Q25396191","wgCheckUserClientHintsHeadersJsApi":["brands","architecture","bitness","fullVersionList","mobile","model","platform","platformVersion"],"GEHomepageSuggestedEditsEnableTopics":true,"wgGETopicsMatchModeEnabled":false,"wgGEStructuredTaskRejectionReasonTextInputEnabled":false,"wgGELevelingUpEnabledForUser":false,"wgMinervaPermissions":{"watchable":true,"watch":false},"wgMinervaFeatures":{"beta":false,"donate":true,"mobileOptionsLink":true, "categories":false,"pageIssues":true,"talkAtTop":true,"historyInPageActions":false,"overflowSubmenu":false,"tabsOnSpecials":true,"personalMenu":false,"mainMenuExpanded":false,"echo":true,"nightMode":true},"wgMinervaDownloadNamespaces":[0]};RLSTATE={"ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","site.styles":"ready","user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"loading","ext.cite.styles":"ready","skins.minerva.styles":"ready","skins.minerva.content.styles.images":"ready","mediawiki.hlist":"ready","skins.minerva.codex.styles":"ready","skins.minerva.icons":"ready","skins.minerva.amc.styles":"ready","ext.wikimediamessages.styles":"ready","mobile.init.styles":"ready","ext.relatedArticles.styles":"ready","wikibase.client.init":"ready","ext.wikimediaBadges":"ready"};RLPAGEMODULES=["mediawiki.action.view.redirect","ext.cite.ux-enhancements","ext.scribunto.logs","site","mediawiki.page.ready","skins.minerva.scripts","ext.centralNotice.geoIP", "ext.centralNotice.startUp","ext.gadget.switcher","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","ext.popups","mobile.init","ext.echo.centralauth","ext.relatedArticles.readMore.bootstrap","ext.eventLogging","ext.wikimediaEvents","ext.navigationTiming","ext.cx.eventlogging.campaigns","ext.cx.entrypoints.mffrequentlanguages","ext.cx.entrypoints.languagesearcher.init","mw.externalguidance.init","ext.checkUser.clientHints","ext.growthExperiments.SuggestedEditSession","wikibase.sidebar.tracking"];</script> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.loader.impl(function(){return["user.options@12s5i",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.tokens.set({"patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"}); }];});});</script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.cite.styles%7Cext.relatedArticles.styles%7Cext.wikimediaBadges%7Cext.wikimediamessages.styles%7Cmediawiki.hlist%7Cmobile.init.styles%7Cskins.minerva.amc.styles%7Cskins.minerva.codex.styles%7Cskins.minerva.content.styles.images%7Cskins.minerva.icons%2Cstyles%7Cwikibase.client.init&only=styles&skin=minerva"> <script async="" src="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=minerva"></script> <meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=minerva"> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.4"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin-when-cross-origin"> <meta name="robots" content="max-image-preview:standard"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <meta name="theme-color" content="#eaecf0"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes, minimum-scale=0.25, maximum-scale=5.0"> <meta property="og:title" content="Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) - Wikipedia"> <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <link rel="preconnect" href="//upload.wikimedia.org"> <link rel="manifest" href="/w/api.php?action=webapp-manifest"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit this page" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/static/apple-touch/wikipedia.png"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico"> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/rest.php/v1/search" title="Wikipedia (en)"> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)"> <link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en"> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//meta.wikimedia.org" /> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//login.wikimedia.org"> </head> <body class="mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-0 ns-subject mw-editable page-Subjectivity_and_objectivity_philosophy rootpage-Subjectivity_and_objectivity_philosophy stable issues-group-B skin-minerva action-view skin--responsive mw-mf-amc-disabled mw-mf"><div id="mw-mf-viewport"> <div id="mw-mf-page-center"> <a class="mw-mf-page-center__mask" href="#"></a> <header class="header-container header-chrome"> <div class="minerva-header"> <nav class="navigation-drawer toggle-list view-border-box"> <input type="checkbox" id="main-menu-input" class="toggle-list__checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false" aria-labelledby="mw-mf-main-menu-button"> <label role="button" for="main-menu-input" id="mw-mf-main-menu-button" aria-hidden="true" data-event-name="ui.mainmenu" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet toggle-list__toggle"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--menu"></span> <span></span> </label> <div id="mw-mf-page-left" class="menu view-border-box"> <ul id="p-navigation" class="toggle-list__list"> <li class="toggle-list-item "> <a class="toggle-list-item__anchor menu__item--home" href="/wiki/Main_Page" data-mw="interface"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--home"></span> <span class="toggle-list-item__label">Home</span> </a> </li> <li class="toggle-list-item "> <a class="toggle-list-item__anchor menu__item--random" href="/wiki/Special:Random" data-mw="interface"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--die"></span> <span class="toggle-list-item__label">Random</span> </a> </li> <li class="toggle-list-item skin-minerva-list-item-jsonly"> <a class="toggle-list-item__anchor menu__item--nearby" href="/wiki/Special:Nearby" data-event-name="menu.nearby" data-mw="interface"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--mapPin"></span> <span class="toggle-list-item__label">Nearby</span> </a> </li> </ul> <ul id="p-personal" class="toggle-list__list"> <li class="toggle-list-item "> <a class="toggle-list-item__anchor menu__item--login" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Subjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" data-event-name="menu.login" data-mw="interface"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--logIn"></span> <span class="toggle-list-item__label">Log in</span> </a> </li> </ul> <ul id="pt-preferences" class="toggle-list__list"> <li class="toggle-list-item skin-minerva-list-item-jsonly"> <a class="toggle-list-item__anchor menu__item--settings" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:MobileOptions&returnto=Subjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" data-event-name="menu.settings" data-mw="interface"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--settings"></span> <span class="toggle-list-item__label">Settings</span> </a> </li> </ul> <ul id="p-donation" class="toggle-list__list"> <li class="toggle-list-item "> <a class="toggle-list-item__anchor menu__item--donate" href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en&utm_key=minerva" data-event-name="menu.donate" data-mw="interface"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--heart"></span> <span class="toggle-list-item__label">Donate</span> </a> </li> </ul> <ul class="hlist"> <li class="toggle-list-item "> <a class="toggle-list-item__anchor menu__item--about" href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About" data-mw="interface"> <span class="toggle-list-item__label">About Wikipedia</span> </a> </li> <li class="toggle-list-item "> <a class="toggle-list-item__anchor menu__item--disclaimers" href="/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer" data-mw="interface"> <span class="toggle-list-item__label">Disclaimers</span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <label class="main-menu-mask" for="main-menu-input"></label> </nav> <div class="branding-box"> <a href="/wiki/Main_Page"> <span><img src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg" alt="Wikipedia" width="120" height="18" style="width: 7.5em; height: 1.125em;"/> </span> </a> </div> <form action="/w/index.php" method="get" class="minerva-search-form"> <div class="search-box"> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Special:Search"/> <input class="search skin-minerva-search-trigger" id="searchInput" type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search Wikipedia" aria-label="Search Wikipedia" autocapitalize="sentences" title="Search Wikipedia [f]" accesskey="f"> <span class="search-box-icon-overlay"><span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--search"></span> </span> </div> <button id="searchIcon" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet skin-minerva-search-trigger"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--search"></span> <span>Search</span> </button> </form> <nav class="minerva-user-navigation" aria-label="User navigation"> </nav> </div> </header> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <div class="banner-container"> <div id="siteNotice"></div> </div> <div class="pre-content heading-holder"> <div class="page-heading"> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)</span></h1> <div class="tagline"></div> </div> <ul id="p-associated-pages" class="minerva__tab-container"> <li class="minerva__tab selected"> <a class="minerva__tab-text" href="/wiki/Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)" rel="" data-event-name="tabs.subject">Article</a> </li> <li class="minerva__tab "> <a class="minerva__tab-text" href="/wiki/Talk:Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)" rel="discussion" data-event-name="tabs.talk">Talk</a> </li> </ul> <nav class="page-actions-menu"> <ul id="p-views" class="page-actions-menu__list"> <li id="language-selector" class="page-actions-menu__list-item"> <a role="button" href="#p-lang" data-mw="interface" data-event-name="menu.languages" title="Language" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet language-selector"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--language"></span> <span>Language</span> </a> </li> <li id="page-actions-watch" class="page-actions-menu__list-item"> <a role="button" id="ca-watch" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Subjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" data-event-name="menu.watch" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet menu__item--page-actions-watch"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--star"></span> <span>Watch</span> </a> </li> <li id="page-actions-edit" class="page-actions-menu__list-item"> <a role="button" id="ca-edit" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit" data-event-name="menu.edit" data-mw="interface" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet edit-page menu__item--page-actions-edit"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>Edit</span> </a> </li> </ul> </nav> <!-- version 1.0.2 (change every time you update a partial) --> <div id="mw-content-subtitle"><span class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="Subjectivity">Subjectivity</a>)</span></div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="content"> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><script>function mfTempOpenSection(id){var block=document.getElementById("mf-section-"+id);block.className+=" open-block";block.previousSibling.className+=" open-block";}</script><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><section class="mf-section-0" id="mf-section-0"> <p> The distinction between <b>subjectivity</b> and <b>objectivity</b> is a basic idea of <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a>, particularly <a href="/wiki/Epistemology" title="Epistemology">epistemology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysics</a>. Various understandings of this distinction have evolved through the work of countless philosophers over centuries. One basic distinction is: </p> <ul><li>Something is <b>subjective</b> if it is dependent on a <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bias" title="Bias">biases</a>, <a href="/wiki/Perception" title="Perception">perception</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emotion" title="Emotion">emotions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Opinion" title="Opinion">opinions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Imagination" title="Imagination">imagination</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Experience" title="Experience">conscious experience</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If a claim is true exclusively when considering the claim from the viewpoint of a sentient being, it is subjectively true. For example, one person may consider the weather to be pleasantly warm, and another person may consider the same weather to be too hot; both views are subjective.</li> <li>Something is <b>objective</b> if it can be confirmed independently of a mind. If a claim is true even when considering it outside the viewpoint of a sentient being, then it may be labelled objectively true.</li></ul> <p>Both ideas have been given various and ambiguous definitions by differing sources as the distinction is often a given but not the specific focal point of philosophical discourse.<sup id="cite_ref-:01_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:01-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two words are usually regarded as <a href="/wiki/Antonym" class="mw-redirect" title="Antonym">opposites</a>, though complications regarding the two have been explored in philosophy: for example, the view of particular thinkers that objectivity is an illusion and does not exist at all, or that a spectrum joins subjectivity and objectivity with a gray area in-between, or that the problem of other minds is best viewed through the concept of <a href="/wiki/Intersubjectivity" title="Intersubjectivity">intersubjectivity</a>, developing since the 20th century. </p><p>The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is often related to discussions of <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a>, <a href="/wiki/Agency_(philosophy)" title="Agency (philosophy)">agency</a>, <a href="/wiki/Personhood" title="Personhood">personhood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind" title="Philosophy of mind">philosophy of mind</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_language" title="Philosophy of language">philosophy of language</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Communication" title="Communication">communication</a> (for example in <a href="/wiki/Narration" title="Narration">narrative communication</a> and <a href="/wiki/Journalism" title="Journalism">journalism</a>). </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Etymology"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Etymology</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#In_Ancient_philosophy"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">In Ancient philosophy</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#In_Western_philosophy"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">In Western philosophy</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Religion"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Religion</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Phenomenology"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Phenomenology</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#In_epistemology"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">In epistemology</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#In_historiography"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">In historiography</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Trouillot"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Trouillot</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#In_social_sciences"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">In social sciences</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <p>The root of the words <i>subjectivity</i> and <i>objectivity</i> are <a href="/wiki/Object_and_subject" class="mw-redirect" title="Object and subject"><i>subject</i> and <i>object</i></a>, philosophical terms that mean, respectively, an observer and a thing being observed. The word <i>subjectivity</i> comes from <i><a href="/wiki/Subject_(philosophy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Subject (philosophy)">subject</a></i> in a philosophical sense, meaning an individual who possesses unique conscious experiences, such as perspectives, feelings, beliefs, and desires,<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or who (consciously) acts upon or wields power over some other entity (an <i><a href="/wiki/Object_(philosophy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Object (philosophy)">object</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-Allen2002_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen2002-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="In_Ancient_philosophy">In Ancient philosophy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: In Ancient philosophy" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>Aristotle's teacher <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a> considered <a href="/wiki/Geometry" title="Geometry">geometry</a> to be a condition of <a href="/wiki/Platonic_idealism" class="mw-redirect" title="Platonic idealism">his idealist philosophy</a> concerned with <a href="/wiki/Universal_(metaphysics)" title="Universal (metaphysics)">universal</a> truth. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (July 2020)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In Plato's <i><a href="/wiki/Republic_(Plato)" title="Republic (Plato)">Republic</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a> opposes the sophist <a href="/wiki/Thrasymachus" title="Thrasymachus">Thrasymachus's</a> relativistic account of justice, and argues that justice is mathematical in its conceptual structure, and that ethics was therefore a precise and objective enterprise with impartial standards for truth and correctness, like geometry.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rigorous mathematical treatment Plato gave to moral concepts set the tone for the western tradition of moral objectivism that came after him.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> His contrasting between objectivity and <a href="/wiki/Doxa" title="Doxa">opinion</a> became the basis for philosophies intent on resolving the questions of <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Existence" title="Existence">existence</a>. He saw opinions as belonging to the shifting sphere of <a href="/wiki/Sensibility" title="Sensibility">sensibilities</a>, as opposed to a fixed, eternal and knowable <a href="/wiki/Incorporeality" title="Incorporeality">incorporeality</a>. Where Plato distinguished between <a href="/wiki/Epistemology" title="Epistemology">how we know things</a> and their <a href="/wiki/Ontology" title="Ontology">ontological</a> status, <a href="/wiki/Subjectivism" title="Subjectivism">subjectivism</a> such as <a href="/wiki/George_Berkeley" title="George Berkeley">George Berkeley</a>'s depends on <a href="/wiki/Perception" title="Perception">perception</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ejournals_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ejournals-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Platonism" title="Platonism">Platonic</a> terms, a criticism of subjectivism is that it is difficult to distinguish between knowledge, opinions, and <a href="/wiki/Subjectivity" class="mw-redirect" title="Subjectivity">subjective</a> knowledge.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Platonic idealism is a form of <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysical</a> objectivism, holding that the <a href="/wiki/Idealism" title="Idealism">ideas exist independently</a> from the individual. Berkeley's <a href="/wiki/Empiricism" title="Empiricism">empirical</a> idealism, on the other hand, holds that <a href="/wiki/Subjectivism" title="Subjectivism">things only exist as they are perceived</a>. Both approaches boast an attempt at objectivity. Plato's definition of objectivity can be found in <a href="/wiki/Platonic_epistemology" title="Platonic epistemology">his epistemology</a>, which is based on <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Universal_(metaphysics)#Platonic_realism" title="Universal (metaphysics)">his metaphysics</a>, where knowledge of the ontological status of objects and ideas is resistant to change.<sup id="cite_ref-ejournals_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ejournals-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="In_Western_philosophy">In Western philosophy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In Western philosophy" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <p>In Western philosophy, the idea of subjectivity is thought to have its roots in the works of the <a href="/wiki/European_Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="European Enlightenment">European Enlightenment</a> thinkers <a href="/wiki/Descartes" class="mw-redirect" title="Descartes">Descartes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kant" class="mw-redirect" title="Kant">Kant</a> though it could also stem as far back as the <a href="/wiki/Classical_Greece" title="Classical Greece">Ancient Greek</a> philosopher <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>'s work relating to the soul.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:01_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:01-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The idea of subjectivity is often seen as a peripheral to other philosophical concepts, namely <a href="/wiki/Skepticism" title="Skepticism">skepticism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Individual" title="Individual">individuals</a> and individuality, and <a href="/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">existentialism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:01_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:01-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:02_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The questions surrounding subjectivity have to do with whether or not people can escape the subjectivity of their own human existence and whether or not there is an obligation to try to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Important thinkers who focused on this area of study include Descartes, <a href="/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">Locke</a>, Kant, <a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Hegel</a>, <a href="/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Søren Kierkegaard">Kierkegaard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Husserl" title="Edmund Husserl">Husserl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michel_Foucault" title="Michel Foucault">Foucault</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Derrida" title="Jacques Derrida">Derrida</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nagel" title="Thomas Nagel">Nagel</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre" title="Jean-Paul Sartre">Sartre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Subjectivity was rejected by Foucault and Derrida in favor of <a href="/wiki/Social_constructionism" title="Social constructionism">constructionism</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Sartre embraced and continued Descartes' work in the subject by emphasizing subjectivity in <a href="/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy)" title="Phenomenology (philosophy)">phenomenology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sartre believed that, even within the material force of human society, the ego was an essentially transcendent being—posited, for instance, in his opus <i><a href="/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness" title="Being and Nothingness">Being and Nothingness</a></i> through his arguments about the 'being-for-others' and the 'for-itself' (i.e., an objective and subjective human being).<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The innermost core of <i>subjectivity</i> resides in a unique act of what <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte" title="Johann Gottlieb Fichte">Fichte</a> called "<a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte#Central_theory" title="Johann Gottlieb Fichte">self-positing</a>", where each subject is a point of absolute <a href="/wiki/Autonomy" title="Autonomy">autonomy</a>, which means that it cannot be reduced to a moment in the network of <a href="/wiki/Causality" title="Causality">causes</a> and effects.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Religion" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>One way that subjectivity has been conceptualized by philosophers such as Kierkegaard is in the context of <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Religious beliefs can vary quite extremely from person to person, but people often think that whatever they believe is the truth. Subjectivity as seen by Descartes and Sartre was a matter of what was dependent on consciousness, so, because religious beliefs require the presence of a consciousness that can believe, they must be subjective.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is in contrast to what has been proven by pure <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">logic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Hard_sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Hard sciences">hard sciences</a>, which does not depend on the perception of people, and is therefore considered objective.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subjectivity is what relies on personal perception regardless of what is proven or objective.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many philosophical arguments within this area of study have to do with moving from subjective thoughts to objective thoughts with many different methods employed to get from one to the other along with a variety of conclusions reached.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is exemplified by Descartes deductions that move from reliance on subjectivity to somewhat of a reliance on God for objectivity.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Foucault and Derrida denied the idea of subjectivity in favor of their ideas of <a href="/wiki/Construct_(philosophy)" title="Construct (philosophy)">constructs</a> in order to account for differences in human thought.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead of focusing on the idea of consciousness and self-consciousness shaping the way humans perceive the world, these thinkers would argue that it is instead the world that shapes humans, so they would see religion less as a belief and more as a cultural construction.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Phenomenology">Phenomenology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Phenomenology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Others like Husserl and Sartre followed the phenomenological approach.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This approach focused on the distinct separation of the human mind and the physical world, where the mind is subjective because it can take liberties like imagination and self-awareness where religion might be examined regardless of any kind of subjectivity.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The philosophical conversation around subjectivity remains one that struggles with the epistemological question of what is real, what is made up, and what it would mean to be separated completely from subjectivity.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="In_epistemology">In epistemology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: In epistemology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <p>In opposition to philosopher <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes" title="René Descartes">René Descartes</a>' method of <a href="/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum" title="Cogito, ergo sum">personal deduction</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (November 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, natural philosopher <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Isaac Newton</a> applied the relatively objective <a href="/wiki/Scientific_method" title="Scientific method">scientific method</a> to look for <a href="/wiki/Scientific_evidence" title="Scientific evidence">evidence</a> before forming a hypothesis.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Partially in response to <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Kant</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Rationalism" title="Rationalism">rationalism</a>, logician <a href="/wiki/Gottlob_Frege" title="Gottlob Frege">Gottlob Frege</a> applied objectivity to his epistemological and metaphysical philosophies. If reality exists independently of <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a>, then it would logically include a plurality of <a href="/wiki/Intension" title="Intension">indescribable</a> forms. Objectivity requires a definition of <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> formed by propositions with <a href="/wiki/Truth_value" title="Truth value">truth value</a>. An attempt of forming an objective <a href="/wiki/World_view" class="mw-redirect" title="World view">construct</a> incorporates <a href="/wiki/Ontological_commitment" title="Ontological commitment">ontological commitments</a> to the reality of objects.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The importance of perception in evaluating and understanding objective reality is debated in the <a href="/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)#Quantum_mechanics" title="Observer effect (physics)">observer effect</a> of quantum mechanics. <a href="/wiki/Direct_and_indirect_realism" title="Direct and indirect realism">Direct</a> or <a href="/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism" title="Naïve realism">naïve realists</a> rely on perception as key in observing objective reality, while <a href="/wiki/Instrumentalism" title="Instrumentalism">instrumentalists</a> hold that observations are useful in predicting objective reality. The concepts that encompass these ideas are important in the <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_science" title="Philosophy of science">philosophy of science</a>. <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind" title="Philosophy of mind">Philosophies of mind</a> explore whether objectivity relies on <a href="/wiki/Consensus_reality" title="Consensus reality">perceptual constancy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="In_historiography">In historiography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In historiography" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <p><a href="/wiki/History" title="History">History</a> as a discipline has wrestled with notions of objectivity from its very beginning. While its object of study is commonly thought to be <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">the past</a>, the only thing historians have to work with are different versions of stories based on individual <a href="/wiki/Perception" title="Perception">perceptions</a> of <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Memory" title="Memory">memory</a>. </p><p>Several history streams developed to devise ways to solve this dilemma: Historians like <a href="/wiki/Leopold_von_Ranke" title="Leopold von Ranke">Leopold von Ranke</a> (19th century) have advocated for the use of extensive <a href="/wiki/Evidence" title="Evidence">evidence</a> –especially <a href="/wiki/Archive" title="Archive">archived</a> physical paper documents– to recover the bygone past, claiming that, as opposed to people's memories, objects remain stable in what they say about the era they witnessed, and therefore represent a better insight into <a href="/wiki/Objective_reality" class="mw-redirect" title="Objective reality">objective reality</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 20th century, the <a href="/wiki/Annales_school" title="Annales school">Annales School</a> emphasized the importance of shifting focus away from the perspectives of influential <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">men</a> –usually politicians around whose actions <a href="/wiki/Narrative" title="Narrative">narratives</a> of <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">the past</a> were shaped–, and putting it on the voices of ordinary people.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Postcolonialism" title="Postcolonialism">Postcolonial</a> streams of history challenge the colonial-postcolonial <a href="/wiki/Dichotomy" title="Dichotomy">dichotomy</a> and critique <a href="/wiki/Eurocentrism" title="Eurocentrism">Eurocentric academia</a> practices, such as the demand for historians from colonized regions to anchor their local narratives to events happening in the territories of their colonizers to earn <a href="/wiki/Credibility" title="Credibility">credibility</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All the streams explained above try to uncover whose voice is more or less truth-bearing and how historians can stitch together versions of it to best explain what "<a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">actually happened.</a>" </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trouillot">Trouillot</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Trouillot" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The anthropologist <a href="/wiki/Michel-Rolph_Trouillot" title="Michel-Rolph Trouillot">Michel-Rolph Trouillot</a> developed the concepts of historicity 1 and 2 to explain the difference between the <a href="/wiki/Materiality_(social_sciences_and_humanities)" title="Materiality (social sciences and humanities)">materiality</a> of <a href="/wiki/Social" title="Social">socio</a>-<a href="/wiki/History" title="History">historical</a> processes (H1) and the narratives that are told about the materiality of socio-historical processes (H2).<sup id="cite_ref-auto_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This distinction hints that H1 would be understood as the <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">factual</a> reality that elapses and is captured with the concept of "<a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">objective truth</a>", and that H2 is the collection of <a href="/wiki/Subjectivity" class="mw-redirect" title="Subjectivity">subjectivities</a> that <a href="/wiki/Hegemony" title="Hegemony">humanity</a> has stitched together to grasp the past. Debates about <a href="/wiki/Positivism" title="Positivism">positivism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Relativism" title="Relativism">relativism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Postmodernism" title="Postmodernism">postmodernism</a> are relevant to evaluating these concepts' importance and the distinction between them. </p><p>In his book "Silencing the past", <a href="/wiki/Michel-Rolph_Trouillot" title="Michel-Rolph Trouillot">Trouillot</a> wrote about the power dynamics at play in history-making, outlining four possible moments in which <a href="/wiki/Oppression" title="Oppression">historical silences</a> can be created: (1) making of <a href="/wiki/Historical_document" title="Historical document">sources</a> (who gets to know how to write, or to have possessions that are later examined as <a href="/wiki/Historical_source" title="Historical source">historical evidence</a>), (2) making of <a href="/wiki/Archive" title="Archive">archives</a> (what <a href="/wiki/Historical_document" title="Historical document">documents</a> are deemed important to save and which are not, how to classify materials, and how to order them within physical or <a href="/wiki/Digitization" title="Digitization">digital</a> archives), (3) making of narratives (which <a href="/wiki/Narrative" title="Narrative">accounts of history</a> are consulted, which voices are given <a href="/wiki/Credibility" title="Credibility">credibility</a>), and (4) the making of history (the retrospective construction of what <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">The Past</a> is).<sup id="cite_ref-auto_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Because history (<a href="/wiki/Official_history" title="Official history">official</a>, <a href="/wiki/Public_history" title="Public history">public</a>, <a href="/wiki/Genealogy" title="Genealogy">familial</a>, personal) informs current perceptions and how we make sense of <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">the present</a>, whose voice gets to be included in it –and how– has direct consequences in material socio-historical processes. Thinking of current historical narratives as <a href="/wiki/Impartiality" title="Impartiality">impartial</a> depictions of the totality of events unfolded in the past by labeling them as "objective" risks sealing historical understanding. Acknowledging that history is never objective and always incomplete has a meaningful opportunity to support <a href="/wiki/Social_justice" title="Social justice">social justice</a> efforts. Under said notion, voices that have been silenced are placed on an equal footing to the grand and popular narratives of the world, appreciated for their unique insight of reality through their <a href="/wiki/Subjectivity" class="mw-redirect" title="Subjectivity">subjective</a> lens. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="In_social_sciences">In social sciences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: In social sciences" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <p>Subjectivity is an inherently social mode that comes about through innumerable interactions within society. As much as subjectivity is a process of <a href="/wiki/Individuation" title="Individuation">individuation</a>, it is equally a process of socialization, the individual never being isolated in a self-contained environment, but endlessly engaging in interaction with the surrounding world. Culture is a living totality of the subjectivity of any given society constantly undergoing transformation.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subjectivity is both shaped by it and shapes it in turn, but also by other things like the economy, political institutions, communities, as well as the natural world. </p><p>Though the boundaries of societies and their cultures are indefinable and arbitrary, the subjectivity inherent in each one is palatable and can be recognized as distinct from others. Subjectivity is in part a particular experience or organization of <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, which includes how one views and interacts with humanity, objects, consciousness, and nature, so the difference between different cultures brings about an alternate experience of existence that forms life in a different manner. A common effect on an individual of this disjunction between subjectivities is <a href="/wiki/Culture_shock" title="Culture shock">culture shock</a>, where the subjectivity of the other culture is considered alien and possibly incomprehensible or even hostile. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Political_subjectivity" title="Political subjectivity">Political subjectivity</a> is an emerging concept in social sciences and humanities.<sup id="cite_ref-Allen2002_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allen2002-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Political subjectivity is a reference to the deep embeddedness of subjectivity in the socially intertwined systems of power and meaning. "Politicality", writes <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://artsandscience.usask.ca/profile/SRahimi">Sadeq Rahimi</a> in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/books/details/9781138840829/">Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity</a></i>, "is not an added aspect of the subject, but indeed the mode of being of the subject, that is, precisely what the subject <i>is</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Objectivity_(science)" title="Objectivity (science)">Scientific objectivity</a> is practicing science while intentionally reducing <a href="/wiki/Partiality" class="mw-redirect" title="Partiality">partiality</a>, biases, or external influences. Moral objectivity is the concept of moral or ethical codes being compared to one another through a set of universal facts or a universal perspective and not through differing conflicting perspectives.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Journalistic_objectivity" title="Journalistic objectivity">Journalistic objectivity</a> is the reporting of facts and news with minimal personal bias or in an impartial or politically neutral manner. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Socrates.png/18px-Socrates.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="28" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="326" data-file-height="500"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 18px;height: 28px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Socrates.png/18px-Socrates.png" data-alt="" data-width="18" data-height="28" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Socrates.png/27px-Socrates.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Socrates.png/36px-Socrates.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Philosophy" title="Portal:Philosophy">Philosophy portal</a></span></li><li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Psi2.svg/28px-Psi2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 28px;height: 28px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Psi2.svg/28px-Psi2.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="28" data-height="28" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Psi2.svg/42px-Psi2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Psi2.svg/56px-Psi2.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Psychology" title="Portal:Psychology">Psychology portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">Dogma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Factual_relativism" title="Factual relativism">Factual relativism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intersubjectivity" title="Intersubjectivity">Intersubjectivity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Journalistic_objectivity" title="Journalistic objectivity">Journalistic objectivity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism" title="Naïve realism">Naïve realism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Objectivity_(science)" title="Objectivity (science)">Objectivity (science)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Objectivism" title="Objectivism">Objectivism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omniscience" title="Omniscience">Omniscience</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy)" title="Phenomenology (philosophy)">Phenomenology (philosophy)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phenomenology_(psychology)" title="Phenomenology (psychology)">Phenomenology (psychology)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_subjectivity" title="Political subjectivity">Political subjectivity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q_methodology" title="Q methodology">Q methodology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relativism" title="Relativism">Relativism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subject_(philosophy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Subject (philosophy)">Subject (philosophy)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transcendental_subjectivity" class="mw-redirect" title="Transcendental subjectivity">Transcendental subjectivity</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard#Subjectivity" title="Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard">Subjectivity is Truth</a>", an existential interpretation of subjectivity by <a href="/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Søren Kierkegaard">Søren Kierkegaard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">Self</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vertiginous_question" title="Vertiginous question">Vertiginous question</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-solomon-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-solomon_1-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon" title="Robert C. Solomon">Solomon, Robert C.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bJFCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA900">"Subjectivity"</a>, in Honderich, Ted. <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Companion_to_Philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford Companion to Philosophy">Oxford Companion to Philosophy</a></i> (Oxford University Press, 2005), p.900.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:01-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:01_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:01_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:01_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bykova, Marina F. (February 2018). "On the Problem of Subjectivity: Editor's Introduction". <i>Russian Studies in Philosophy</i>. <b>56</b>: 1–5 – via EBSCOhost.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:1-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:1_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGonzalez_Rey2019" class="citation journal cs1">Gonzalez Rey, Fernando (June 2019). "Subjectivity in Debate: Some Psychology". <i>Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour</i>. <b>49</b>: 212–234 – via EBCOhost.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+for+the+Theory+of+Social+Behaviour&rft.atitle=Subjectivity+in+Debate%3A+Some+Psychology&rft.volume=49&rft.pages=212-234&rft.date=2019-06&rft.aulast=Gonzalez+Rey&rft.aufirst=Fernando&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Allen2002-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Allen2002_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Allen2002_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAllen2002" class="citation journal cs1">Allen, Amy (2002). "Power, Subjectivity, and Agency: Between Arendt and Foucault". <i>International Journal of Philosophical Studies</i>. <b>10</b> (2): 131–49. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F09672550210121432">10.1080/09672550210121432</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144541333">144541333</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=International+Journal+of+Philosophical+Studies&rft.atitle=Power%2C+Subjectivity%2C+and+Agency%3A+Between+Arendt+and+Foucault&rft.volume=10&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=131-49&rft.date=2002&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F09672550210121432&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A144541333%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Allen&rft.aufirst=Amy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>, "The Republic", 337B, HarperCollins Publishers, 1968</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ejournals-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ejournals_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ejournals_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFE._Douka_Kabîtoglou1991" class="citation journal cs1">E. Douka Kabîtoglou (1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/sygkrisi/article/viewFile/2803/2561.pdf">"Shelley and Berkeley: The Platonic Connection"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>: 20–35.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Shelley+and+Berkeley%3A+The+Platonic+Connection&rft.pages=20-35&rft.date=1991&rft.au=E.+Douka+Kab%C3%AEtoglou&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr%2Findex.php%2Fsygkrisi%2Farticle%2FviewFile%2F2803%2F2561.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" title="Template:Cite journal">cite journal</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Cite journal requires <code class="cs1-code">|journal=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMary_Margaret_Mackenzie1985" class="citation journal cs1">Mary Margaret Mackenzie (1985). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1375153">"Plato's moral theory"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_of_Medical_Ethics" title="Journal of Medical Ethics">Journal of Medical Ethics</a></i>. <b>11</b> (2): 88–91. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1136%2Fjme.11.2.88">10.1136/jme.11.2.88</a>. <a href="/wiki/PMC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMC (identifier)">PMC</a> <span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1375153">1375153</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4009640">4009640</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Medical+Ethics&rft.atitle=Plato%27s+moral+theory&rft.volume=11&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=88-91&rft.date=1985&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC1375153%23id-name%3DPMC&rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F4009640&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1136%2Fjme.11.2.88&rft.au=Mary+Margaret+Mackenzie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC1375153&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:02-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:02_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:02_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStrazzoni2015" class="citation journal cs1">Strazzoni, Andrea (2015). "Introduction. Subjectivity and Individuality: Two Strands in Early Modern Philosophy". <i>Societate Si Politica</i>. <b>9</b> – via ProQuest.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Societate+Si+Politica&rft.atitle=Introduction.+Subjectivity+and+Individuality%3A+Two+Strands+in+Early+Modern+Philosophy&rft.volume=9&rft.date=2015&rft.aulast=Strazzoni&rft.aufirst=Andrea&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:3-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:3_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:3_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:3_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas, Baldwin. "Sartre, Jean-Paul," in Honderich, Ted. <i>Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2005). pp. 834–837</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Žižek, Slavoj (2019-09-23). "The Fall That Makes Us Like God, Part I". <i>The Philosophical Salon</i>. Archived from the original on 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2019-09-25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cottingham, John. "Descartes, René," in Honderich, Ted. <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Companion_to_Philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford Companion to Philosophy">Oxford Companion to Philosophy</a> (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 201–205.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSuzuki,_Fumitaka2012" class="citation journal cs1">Suzuki, Fumitaka (March 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/147573560.pdf">"The Cogito Proposition of Descartes and Characteristics of His Ego Theory"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Bulletin of Aichi University of Education</i>. <b>61</b>: 73–80.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bulletin+of+Aichi+University+of+Education&rft.atitle=The+Cogito+Proposition+of+Descartes+and+Characteristics+of+His+Ego+Theory&rft.volume=61&rft.pages=73-80&rft.date=2012-03&rft.au=Suzuki%2C+Fumitaka&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcore.ac.uk%2Fdownload%2Fpdf%2F147573560.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClinton_Tolley" class="citation journal cs1">Clinton Tolley. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/ctolley/publications/tolley-KGL-ms-2010.pdf">"Kant on the Generality of Logic"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. University of California, San Diego.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Kant+on+the+Generality+of+Logic&rft.au=Clinton+Tolley&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fphilosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu%2Ffaculty%2Fctolley%2Fpublications%2Ftolley-KGL-ms-2010.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" title="Template:Cite journal">cite journal</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Cite journal requires <code class="cs1-code">|journal=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Tyler_Burge" title="Tyler Burge">Tyler Burge</a>, <i>Origins of Objectivity</i>, Oxford University Press, 2010.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leopold von Ranke, “Author’s Preface,” in History of the Reformation in Germany, trans. Sarah Austin, vii–xi. London: George Rutledge and Sons, 1905.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Andrea, A. (1991). Mentalities in history. The Historian 53(3), 605–608. </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Chakrabarty, D. (1992). Postcoloniality and the artifice of history: Who speaks for "Indian" pasts?Representations, (37), 1–26. doi:10.2307/2928652.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. (1995). Silencing the past : power and the production of history. Boston, Mass. :Beacon Press,</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Silverman, H.J. ed., 2014. Questioning foundations: truth, subjectivity, and culture. Routledge.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (July 2017)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="Rahimi" class="citation book cs1">Rahimi, Sadeq (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/books/details/9781138840829/"><i>Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A Study of Schizophrenia and Culture in Turkey</i></a>. Oxford & New York: Routledge. p. 8. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1138840829" title="Special:BookSources/978-1138840829"><bdi>978-1138840829</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150402120529/http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/books/details/9781138840829/">Archived</a> from the original on 2015-04-02<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-03-22</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Meaning%2C+Madness+and+Political+Subjectivity%3A+A+Study+of+Schizophrenia+and+Culture+in+Turkey&rft.place=Oxford+%26+New+York&rft.pages=8&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-1138840829&rft.aulast=Rahimi&rft.aufirst=Sadeq&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.routledgementalhealth.com%2Fbooks%2Fdetails%2F9781138840829%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:0_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRescher2008" class="citation journal cs1">Rescher, Nicholas (January 2008). "Moral Objectivity". <i>Social Philosophy and Policy</i>. <b>25</b> (1): 393–409. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0265052508080151">10.1017/S0265052508080151</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:233358084">233358084</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Social+Philosophy+and+Policy&rft.atitle=Moral+Objectivity&rft.volume=25&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=393-409&rft.date=2008-01&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0265052508080151&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A233358084%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Rescher&rft.aufirst=Nicholas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaston_Bachelard" title="Gaston Bachelard">Bachelard, Gaston</a>. <i>La formation de l'esprit scientifique: contribution à une psychanalyse de la connaissance</i>. Paris: Vrin, 2004. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2-7116-1150-7" title="Special:BookSources/2-7116-1150-7">2-7116-1150-7</a>.</li> <li>Beiser, Frederick C. (2002). <i>German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781–1801</i>. Harvard University Press.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ned_Block" title="Ned Block">Block, Ned</a>; Flanagan, Owen J.; & Gzeldere, Gven (Eds.) <i>The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates</i>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-262-52210-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-262-52210-6">978-0-262-52210-6</a></li> <li>Bowie, Andrew (1990). <i>Aesthetics and Subjectivity : From Kant to Nietzsche</i>. Manchester: Manchester University Press.</li> <li>Castillejo, David. <i>The Formation of Modern Objectivity</i>. Madrid: Ediciones de Arte y Bibliofilia, 1982.</li> <li>Dallmayr, Winfried Reinhard (1981). <i>Twilight of Subjectivity: Contributions to a Post-Individualist Theory Politics</i>. Amherst, MA: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Press" title="University of Massachusetts Press">University of Massachusetts Press</a>.</li> <li>Ellis, C. & Flaherty, M. (1992). <i>Investigating Subjectivity: Research on Lived Experience</i>. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8039-4496-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8039-4496-1">978-0-8039-4496-1</a></li> <li>Farrell, Frank B. (1994). <i>Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy</i>. Cambridge – New York: Cambridge University Press.</li> <li>Gaukroger, Stephen. (2012). <i>Objectivity</i>. Oxford University Press.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohnson2003" class="citation journal cs1">Johnson, Daniel (July 2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170624190308/http://www.quodlibet.net/articles/johnson-truth.shtml">"On Truth As Subjectivity In Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript"</a>. <i>Quodlibet Journal</i>. <b>5</b> (2–3). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.quodlibet.net/articles/johnson-truth.shtml">the original</a> on 2017-06-24<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2023-06-28</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Quodlibet+Journal&rft.atitle=On+Truth+As+Subjectivity+In+Kierkegaard%27s+Concluding+Unscientific+Postscript&rft.volume=5&rft.issue=2%E2%80%933&rft.date=2003-07&rft.aulast=Johnson&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quodlibet.net%2Farticles%2Fjohnson-truth.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Samuel_Kuhn" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Samuel Kuhn">Kuhn, Thomas S.</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions" title="The Structure of Scientific Revolutions">The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</a></i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 3rd ed. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-45808-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-45808-3">0-226-45808-3</a>.</li> <li>Lauer, Quentin (1958). <i>The Triumph of Subjectivity: An Introduction to Transcendental Phenomenology</i>. Fordham University Press.</li> <li>Megill, Allan. <i>Rethinking Objectivity</i>. London: Duke UP, 1994.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Nagel" title="Ernest Nagel">Nagel, Ernest</a>. <i>The Structure of Science</i>. New York: Brace and World, 1961.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nagel" title="Thomas Nagel">Nagel, Thomas</a>. <i>The View from Nowhere</i>. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Nozick" title="Robert Nozick">Nozick, Robert</a>. <i>Invariances: the structure of the objective world</i>. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Popper" title="Karl Popper">Popper, Karl. R.</a> <i>Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach</i>. Oxford University Press, 1972. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-875024-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-875024-2">0-19-875024-2</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Rescher" title="Nicholas Rescher">Rescher, Nicholas</a>. <i>Objectivity: the obligations of impersonal reason</i>. Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 1977.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Rorty" title="Richard Rorty">Rorty, Richard</a>. <i>Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991</li> <li>Rousset, Bernard. <i>La théorie kantienne de l'objectivité</i>, Paris: Vrin, 1967.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Scheffler" title="Israel Scheffler">Scheffler, Israel</a>. <i>Science and Subjectivity</i>. Hackett, 1982. Voices of Wisdom; a multicultural philosophy reader. Kessler</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: External links" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 40px;height: 40px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="40" data-height="40" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/60px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/80px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Subjectivity" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Subjectivity">Subjectivity</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/objectiv">"Objectivity"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Internet_Encyclopedia_of_Philosophy" title="Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy">Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Objectivity&rft.btitle=Internet+Encyclopedia+of+Philosophy&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iep.utm.edu%2Fobjectiv&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASubjectivity+and+objectivity+%28philosophy%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/suob.htm">Subjectivity and Objectivity</a>—by Pete Mandik</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{background-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list{line-height:1.5em;border-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list-with-group{text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid}.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-group,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-image,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-list{border-top:2px solid #fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title{background-color:#ccf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-title{background-color:#ddf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-abovebelow{background-color:#e6e6ff}.mw-parser-output .navbox-even{background-color:#f7f7f7}.mw-parser-output .navbox-odd{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ul,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ul{padding:0.125em 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title .navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .navbox-image img{max-width:none!important}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .navbox{display:none!important}}</style></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236088147">.mw-parser-output .sister-bar{display:flex;justify-content:center;align-items:baseline;font-size:88%;background-color:#fdfdfd;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;clear:both;margin:1em 0 0;padding:0 2em}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-header{margin:0 1em 0 0.5em;padding:0.2em 0;flex:0 0 auto;min-height:24px;line-height:22px}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-content{display:flex;flex-flow:row wrap;flex:0 1 auto;align-items:baseline;padding:0.2em 0;column-gap:1em;margin:0;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-item{display:flex;align-items:baseline;margin:0.15em 0;min-height:24px;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-logo{width:22px;line-height:22px;margin:0 0.2em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-link{margin:0 0.2em;text-align:left}@media screen and (max-width:960px){.mw-parser-output .sister-bar{flex-flow:column wrap;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-header{flex:0 1}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-content{flex:1;border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;margin:0;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-item{flex:0 0 20em;min-width:20em}}.mw-parser-output .navbox+link+.sister-bar,.mw-parser-output .navbox+style+.sister-bar,.mw-parser-output .portal-bar+link+.sister-bar,.mw-parser-output .portal-bar+style+.sister-bar,.mw-parser-output .sister-bar+.navbox-styles+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .sister-bar+.navbox-styles+.portal-bar{margin-top:-1px}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sister-bar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="noprint metadata sister-bar" role="navigation" aria-label="sister-projects"><div class="sister-bar-header"><b>Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)</b> at Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_sister_projects" title="Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects"><span id="sister-projects" style="white-space:nowrap;">sister projects</span></a>:</div><ul class="sister-bar-content"><li class="sister-bar-item"><span class="sister-bar-logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/06/Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg/19px-Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="19" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="391" data-file-height="391"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 19px;height: 19px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/06/Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg/19px-Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="19" data-height="19" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/06/Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg/29px-Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/06/Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg/38px-Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></span></span></span><span class="sister-bar-link"><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/objectivity" class="extiw" title="wikt:objectivity">Definitions</a></b> from Wiktionary</span></li><li class="sister-bar-item"><span class="sister-bar-logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/16px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="19" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 16px;height: 19px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/16px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="16" data-height="19" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/24px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/32px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></span></span></span><span class="sister-bar-link"><b><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Objectivity" class="extiw" title="q:Objectivity">Quotations</a></b> from Wikiquote</span></li><li class="sister-bar-item"><span class="sister-bar-logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg/21px-Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="17" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="626" data-file-height="512"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 21px;height: 17px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg/21px-Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="21" data-height="17" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg/32px-Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg/42px-Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></span></span></span><span class="sister-bar-link"><b><a href="https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Historical_Introduction_to_Philosophy/Truth,_Objectivity,_and_Relativism" class="extiw" title="v:Historical Introduction to Philosophy/Truth, Objectivity, and Relativism">Resources</a></b> from Wikiversity</span></li><li class="sister-bar-item"><span class="sister-bar-logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/21px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="12" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 21px;height: 12px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/21px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="21" data-height="12" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/42px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></span></span></span><span class="sister-bar-link"><b><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25396191" class="extiw" title="d:Q25396191">Data</a></b> from Wikidata</span></li></ul></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style></div> <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐web.codfw.main‐f69cdc8f6‐lsrvg Cached time: 20241122153311 Cache expiry: 2592000 Reduced expiry: false Complications: [vary‐revision‐sha1, show‐toc] CPU time usage: 0.998 seconds Real time usage: 1.240 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 4167/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 234459/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 4106/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 19/100 Expensive parser function count: 9/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 1/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 101287/5000000 bytes Lua time usage: 0.525/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage: 7230942/52428800 bytes Number of Wikibase entities loaded: 1/400 --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 934.836 1 -total 25.37% 237.190 14 Template:Navbox 20.61% 192.630 1 Template:Reflist 16.74% 156.537 1 Template:Consciousness 15.40% 144.007 9 Template:Cite_journal 10.52% 98.354 1 Template:Short_description 9.24% 86.388 1 Template:Philosophy_topics 8.84% 82.680 1 Template:Navbox_with_collapsible_groups 6.70% 62.680 1 Template:Subject_bar 6.57% 61.411 2 Template:Pagetype --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwiki:pcache:idhash:74146091-0!canonical and timestamp 20241122153311 and revision id 1258822797. Rendering was triggered because: page-view --> </section></div> <!-- MobileFormatter took 0.027 seconds --><!--esi <esi:include src="/esitest-fa8a495983347898/content" /> --><noscript><img src="https://login.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&mobile=1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&oldid=1258822797">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&oldid=1258822797</a>"</div></div> </div> <div class="post-content" id="page-secondary-actions"> </div> </main> <footer class="mw-footer minerva-footer" role="contentinfo"> <a class="last-modified-bar" href="/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&action=history"> <div class="post-content last-modified-bar__content"> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon-size-medium minerva-icon--modified-history"></span> <span class="last-modified-bar__text modified-enhancement" data-user-name="Wolfdog" data-user-gender="unknown" data-timestamp="1732221886"> <span>Last edited on 21 November 2024, at 20:44</span> </span> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon-size-small minerva-icon--expand"></span> </div> </a> <div class="post-content footer-content"> <div id='mw-data-after-content'> <div class="read-more-container"></div> </div> <div id="p-lang"> <h4>Languages</h4> <section> <ul id="p-variants" class="minerva-languages"></ul> <ul class="minerva-languages"><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B6%D9%88%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A9_(%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%A9)" title="الذاتية والموضوعية (فلسفة) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="الذاتية والموضوعية (فلسفة)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%95%D5%A2%D5%B5%D5%A5%D5%AF%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%BE%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6_%D6%87_%D5%BD%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A2%D5%B5%D5%A5%D5%AF%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%BE%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6" title="Օբյեկտիվություն և սուբյեկտիվություն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Օբյեկտիվություն և սուբյեկտիվություն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjektivitas_dan_objektivitas_(filsafat)" title="Subjektivitas dan objektivitas (filsafat) – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Subjektivitas dan objektivitas (filsafat)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC" title="Объективизм – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Объективизм" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC_(%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F)" title="Объективизм (философия) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Объективизм (философия)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li></ul> </section> </div> <div class="minerva-footer-logo"><img src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg" alt="Wikipedia" width="120" height="18" style="width: 7.5em; height: 1.125em;"/> </div> <ul id="footer-info" class="footer-info hlist hlist-separated"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 21 November 2024, at 20:44<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Content is available under <a class="external" rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> unless otherwise noted.</li> </ul> <ul id="footer-places" class="footer-places hlist hlist-separated"> <li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy policy</a></li> <li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About">About Wikipedia</a></li> <li id="footer-places-disclaimers"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-contact"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us">Contact Wikipedia</a></li> <li id="footer-places-wm-codeofconduct"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct">Code of Conduct</a></li> <li id="footer-places-developers"><a href="https://developer.wikimedia.org">Developers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-statslink"><a href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org">Statistics</a></li> <li id="footer-places-cookiestatement"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Cookie_statement">Cookie statement</a></li> <li id="footer-places-terms-use"><a href="https://foundation.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use</a></li> <li id="footer-places-desktop-toggle"><a id="mw-mf-display-toggle" href="//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop" data-event-name="switch_to_desktop">Desktop</a></li> </ul> </div> </footer> </div> </div> <div class="mw-notification-area" data-mw="interface"></div> <!-- v:8.3.1 --> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgHostname":"mw-web.codfw.main-f69cdc8f6-7zwfr","wgBackendResponseTime":185,"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.998","walltime":"1.240","ppvisitednodes":{"value":4167,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":234459,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":4106,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":19,"limit":100},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":9,"limit":500},"unstrip-depth":{"value":1,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":101287,"limit":5000000},"entityaccesscount":{"value":1,"limit":400},"timingprofile":["100.00% 934.836 1 -total"," 25.37% 237.190 14 Template:Navbox"," 20.61% 192.630 1 Template:Reflist"," 16.74% 156.537 1 Template:Consciousness"," 15.40% 144.007 9 Template:Cite_journal"," 10.52% 98.354 1 Template:Short_description"," 9.24% 86.388 1 Template:Philosophy_topics"," 8.84% 82.680 1 Template:Navbox_with_collapsible_groups"," 6.70% 62.680 1 Template:Subject_bar"," 6.57% 61.411 2 Template:Pagetype"]},"scribunto":{"limitreport-timeusage":{"value":"0.525","limit":"10.000"},"limitreport-memusage":{"value":7230942,"limit":52428800},"limitreport-logs":"table#1 {\n [\"size\"] = \"tiny\",\n}\ntable#1 {\n}\ntable#1 {\n}\n"},"cachereport":{"origin":"mw-web.codfw.main-f69cdc8f6-lsrvg","timestamp":"20241122153311","ttl":2592000,"transientcontent":false}}});});</script> <script type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Article","name":"Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)","url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)","sameAs":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q25396191","mainEntity":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q25396191","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Contributors to Wikimedia projects"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.org\/static\/images\/wmf-hor-googpub.png"}},"datePublished":"2023-06-28T00:59:39Z","dateModified":"2024-11-21T20:44:46Z","headline":"basic distinction in philosophy"}</script><script>(window.NORLQ=window.NORLQ||[]).push(function(){var ns,i,p,img;ns=document.getElementsByTagName('noscript');for(i=0;i<ns.length;i++){p=ns[i].nextSibling;if(p&&p.className&&p.className.indexOf('lazy-image-placeholder')>-1){img=document.createElement('img');img.setAttribute('src',p.getAttribute('data-src'));img.setAttribute('width',p.getAttribute('data-width'));img.setAttribute('height',p.getAttribute('data-height'));img.setAttribute('alt',p.getAttribute('data-alt'));p.parentNode.replaceChild(img,p);}}});</script> </body> </html>