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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Partaking of objectivism, in either sense.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to objectivism.

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Examples

  • The poverty of an objectivistic account is made only too clear when we consider the mystery of music.

    The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006

  • The poverty of an objectivistic account is made only too clear when we consider the mystery of music.

    The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006

  • These two aspects of inner life are not ultimately independent and exclusive; the subjective purposes of real life necessarily demand the labors of objectivistic psychology.

    Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Various 1889

  • While the second Critique claims that good things owe their value to being the objects of the choices of rational agents, they could not, in his view, acquire any value at all if the source of that value, rational agency, itself had no value. (1999, 130; see also pp. 157-8) Finally, Rae Langton has recently argued that if Kant's theory is to be thought of as an objectivistic view, we must suppose that the value of humanity and the good will are independent of simply being the objects of our rational choices.

    Kant's Moral Philosophy Johnson, Robert 2008

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