subjectivist

Examples

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• He says, look, the truth is we should be objectivist about some things and subjectivist about other things.

• So long as we can think that something that's generally approved of could still be wrong, then, you know, there's a problem with this subjectivist ethic in terms of groups.

• Because if everybody agrees that we're all subjectivists, right?

• Almost half of the respondents in the work of Belenky et al. were predominantly subjectivist in their thinking.

  Academic text (2000)

• Hume can therefore avoid the charge of being a radical subjectivist concerning morality.

  Academic text (1999)

• I am a left-libertarian, a cynic, and a radical subjectivist.

  Blog text (9)

• They want their students to conform to the epistemologically correct ideal of a subjectivist who eschews external standards.

  Academic text (1996)

• If proponents of this non-cognitivist and subjectivist view of human action are right, then the entire business of ethics is a charade and human dignity is a myth.

  Academic text (2008)

• Consequently, to Mises, everything we seek to study in economics stems ultimately from individual choice, the key to which is subjectivist economics (stemming from the 1870s revolution by Menger, Jevons, and Walras).

  Academic text (1999)

• According to ethical subjectivists, moral values are based solely on an individual's beliefs.

Synonyms

R

relativist

vssubjectivist

4 8.0

A person who thinks that truth and moral rules depend on the situation or viewpoint

sees knowledge and values as based on personal experience and perception

Antonyms

O

objectivist

1 8.8

Believing that facts and truth exist independently of personal feelings

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology