objectivistn.adj.
/əbˈdʒɛktᵻvɪst/, U.S. /əbˈdʒɛktəvəst/, /ɑbˈdʒɛktəvəst/ A. n.
An advocate of or believer in objectivism (in various senses); an objective person.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [noun] > objectivism > adherent of
objectist1837
objectivist1871
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > faults according to communist theory > one who commits
running dog1925
diversionist1937
objectivist1960
capitulationist1963
1871 W. G. Ward Ess. Philos. Theism I. i. 1 English philosophers..may be divided into..objectivists and phenomenists... The former stoutly maintain that man has cognizance of objective truth.
1882 Mind 7 491 The doctrine of the relativity of knowledge, properly construed, has a real validity and profound significance to the objectivist.
1906 Philos. Rev. 15 469 Locke, as he was to himself and to the century succeeding him, was not a subjectivist, but in the main a common sense objectivist.
1927 Philos. Rev. 36 374 The Postscript is a dialogue between four philosophers:—Partridge, an Objectivist; Bryce, a Subjectivist; Lovelace, a Dualist; and Hylanous.., a Realist.
1960 tr. V. Lenin Coll. Wks. I. 401 The objectivist speaks of ‘insurmountable historical tendencies’; the materialist speaks of the class which ‘directs’ the given economic system.
1988 Amer. Jrnl. Public Health 78 1532/2 Some objectivists may break from orthodox ‘frequentist’ analysis and try to devlelop alternative approaches that avoid pretense and arbitrariness.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of, belonging to, or relating to objectivism or objectivists.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [adjective] > of or relating to objectivism
objectivist1876
transgredient1904
1876 St. G. Mivart Lessons from Nature 24 The dogmas which the objectivist philosophy enunciates.
1882 Mind 7 494 The hostility secretly existing and working between subjectivist and objectivist methods..is one of the curious and striking features of contemporaneous thought.
1929 A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 243 Descarte's discovery on the side of subjectivism requires balancing by an ‘objectivist’ principle as to the datum of experience.
1935 Mind 44 295 There are..in the writings of all Objectivist axiologists chapters ostensibly directed to ‘proving’ some selected list of ‘intrinsic’ values.
1982 J. Campbell Grammatical Man i. iv. 61 The objectivist view of probability emphasizes the material nature of chance events, their impersonal and public character.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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