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  • Any valuation of art was sub­jective and so the seller would always inflate the price.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hels 2009

  • Any valuation of art was sub­jective and so the seller would always inflate the price.

    Joseph Duveen, art dealer extraordinaire Hels 2009

  • There was the small matter of some ceremonial guards located between him and his ob-jective.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • This type of information, while often available from scientific evaluations of an innovation, is instead sought by most individuals from their near peers, whose sub jective opinions of the innovation based on their personal experience with adoption of the new idea are more accessible and convincing to them.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • This type of information, while often available from scientific evaluations of an innovation, is instead sought by most individuals from their near peers, whose sub jective opinions of the innovation based on their personal experience with adoption of the new idea are more accessible and convincing to them.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • Removal of launch codes from submarines would completely defeat the ob jective of having

    Statement On Nuclear Deterrence 1998

  • The determinist will speak slightingly of the “sub - jective character” of personal experience and its ex - pressions, the libertarian of the “abstract and diagram - matic character” of causality-constructions; while the agnostic will cite the agelong inconclusiveness of the debate between the two other parties, and the inade - quacy of language as such to the nature of things.

    FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

  • Kant holds that the manifold of sense-experience is located in space and time, which are forms of human intuition, and organized into ob - jective phenomena by the application of Categories, which are forms of human conceptual organization.

    NECESSITY STEPHAN K 1968

  • Page 221, Volume 3 as to be compatible with any possible state of affairs; like the advanced neurotic who fails to adjust to ob - jective social reality and lives instead in a compensa - tory inner world of fantasy, so the metaphysician's atavistic distinctions between appearance and reality, phenomena and noumena, becoming and being, con - tingency and necessity, and so on, are symptomatic of his own maladjustments.

    METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

  • When they could find no way of avoiding the con - clusion that knowledge was either unverifiable or sub - jective, the logical positivists retreated from seeking certainty into arguing that there was no way of estab - lishing a correspondence between knowledge and fact.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN 1968

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