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1836 W. Dobson tr. F. Schleiermacher Introd. Dialogues Plato iii. 395 This may be done by a more subjective method, if, says Plato, since there is no umpire to decide between them,..it is asked which of them can be qualified to pass a correct judgement upon the others as well as upon itself.

1844 Present 15 Jan. 243 Goethe, with his subjective method and theoretical Quietism.

1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) I. Prolegomena p. xxxiii The Subjective Method which moulds realities on its conceptions, endeavouring to discern the order of Things, not by step by step adjustments of the order of ideas to it, but by the anticipatory rush of Thought, the direction of which is determined by Thoughts and not controlled by Objects.

1922 Nassau Literary Mag. Mar. 254 The first method [sc. of reviewing a book], the subjective method, gives the opinion of the reviewer, frankly biased.

1991 D. Carr Time, Narr., & Hist. (new ed.) v. 125 Descartes..believed that the independent reality of the world could validly be affirmed on the basis of his subjective method, even if he had to go beyond the evidence of the senses to the rationally determined evidence of the existence and nature of God.