Crossword clues for objectivity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Objectivity \Ob`jec*tiv"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. objectivit['e].] The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective.
The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested
objectivity have disappeared [in the life of the
Greeks].
--M. Arnold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, from Medieval Latin objectivus, from Latin objectus (see object (n.)) + -ity.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being objective, just, unbiased and not influenced by emotions or personal prejudices 2 The world as it really is; reality 3 That which one understands, often, as ''intellectually'', of all and everything, of what is sensed as felt, thereof 4 That which is perceived to be true to understanding 5 The object of understanding
WordNet
n. judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices [syn: objectiveness]
Wikipedia
Objectivity can refer to:
- Objectivity (philosophy)
- Objectivity (science)
- Objectivity (frame invariance)
- Objectivity in historiography
- Objectivity/DB - a commercial object oriented database management system produced by Objectivity
- Journalistic objectivity
Objectivity in science is a value that informs how science is practiced and how scientific truths are discovered. It is the idea that scientists, in attempting to uncover truths about the natural world, must aspire to eliminate personal biases, a priori commitments, emotional involvement, etc. Objectivity is often attributed to the property of scientific measurement, as the accuracy of a measurement can be tested independent from the individual scientist who first reports it. It is thus intimately related to the aim of testability and reproducibility. To be properly considered objective, the results of measurement must be communicated from person to person, and then demonstrated for third parties, as an advance in understanding of the objective world. Such demonstrable knowledge would ordinarily confer demonstrable powers of prediction or technological construction.
Problems arise from not understanding the limits of objectivity in scientific research, especially when results are generalized. Given that the object selection and measurement process are typically subjective, when results of that subjective process are generalized to the larger system from which the object was selected, the stated conclusions are necessarily biased.
Objectivity should not be confused with scientific consensus. Scientists may agree at one point in time but later discover that this consensus represented a subjective point of view.
The concept of objectivity in science . For example, physical processes (e.g. material properties) are invariant under changes of observers; that is, it is possible to reconcile observations of the process into a single coherent description of it.
Objectivity is a central philosophical concept, related to reality and truth, which has been variously defined by sources. Generally, objectivity means the state or quality of being true even outside of a subject's individual biases, interpretations, feelings, and imaginings. A proposition is generally considered objectively true (to have objective truth) when its truth conditions are met without biases caused by feelings, ideas, opinions, etc., of a sentient subject. A second, broader meaning of the term refers to the ability in any context to judge fairly, without partiality or external influence. This second meaning of objectivity is sometimes used synonymously with'' neutrality''.
Usage examples of "objectivity".
Lady Astatine was the only relative who retained critical objectivity.
The first-person author acknowledges the lack of narrative completeness, while the plural pronoun immediately following suggests authorial objectivity and stature.
In his statements about the Miramar finds, Boule provides a classic case of prejudice and preconception masquerading as scientific objectivity.
But the concept of objective culpability proves that this curious kind of objectivity is only based on results and facts which will only become accessible to science in the year 2000, at the very earliest.
The latter, as we have seen, took as its foundation a triple theory of irreducible needs, the objectivity of labour, and the end of history.
August Analog has left me somewhat aghast and very disappointed in your apparent lack of scientific objectivity.
We may well wonder whether this new autonomy within the culture was the freedom Renan hoped his philological Orientalist science would bring or whether, so far as a critical historian of Orientalism is concerned, it set up a complex affiliation between Orientalism and its putative human subject matter that is based finally on power and not really on disinterested objectivity.
I knew that I had to consider the whole matter very carefully and objectively, lest I should ever have occasion to put it all on the record for the benefit of future generations of psychotropic geneticists, but it was difficult looking back on the Teresa situation with calm objectivity, and even harder to contemplate writing it all down one day in careful scientific language.
In the following way an indubitable proof seems to be given of the correctness of the view concerning the subjectivity of the impressions obtained through the sense of warmth, and of the objectivity of thermometrical measurement.
He has no difficulty presuming that Islam is a unitary phenomenon, unlike any other religion or civilization, and thereafter he shows it to be antihuman, incapable of development, self-knowledge, or objectivity, as well as uncreative, unscientific, and authoritarian.
This fails to attain objectivity because the facts that survive may be either too few or too numerous, and in either case artistry must be employed in filling gaps or selecting.
Christians, an established critic of Catholics, and someone outside the Harvard faculty, so that he could give sugarplums to the College and sharpen his pens against us with the appearance of objectivity.
Brain language has many dialects, spoken by many different sorts of biologists - physiologists, biochemists, anatomists - and handles its claims to objectivity with confidence.
Putnam proposes, we are then presented with the challenge of placing specific assertions within a corresponding spectrum of subjectivity and objectivity.
Raul had scattered cruzeiros like royal largess, but Krebs had held back, telling herself that she needed to retain her journalistic objectivity although she had realized later that this was only an attempt to insulate herself from the misery she was unable to alleviate.