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OBJECTIVISM

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OBJECTIVISM , in See also:

philosophy, a See also:term used, in contradistinction to See also:SUBJECTIVISM, for any theory of knowledge which to a greater or less extent attributes reality (as the source and necessary pre-requisite of knowledge) to the See also:external See also:world. The distinction is based upon the philosophical See also:antithesis of the terms See also:Object and Subject, and their respective adjectival forms " See also:objective " and " subjective." In See also:common use these terms are opposed as synonymous respectively with " real " and " imaginary," " See also:practical " and " theoretical," " See also:physical " and " psychic." A See also:man " See also:sees " an apparition; was there any physical manifestation, or was it merely a creation of his mind ? If the latter the phenomenon is described as purely subjective. Subjectivism in its extreme See also:form denies that mind can know more than its own states. See also:Objects, i.e. things-in-themselves, may or may not exist: the mind knows only its own sensations, perceptions, ideal constructions and so forth. In a modified form " subjectivism " is that theory which attaches See also:special importance to the See also:part played by the mind in the See also:accumulation of experience. See See also:PSYCHOLOGY; RELATIVITY OF KNOWLEDGE.

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