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1845 J. W. Nevin tr. P. Schaf Princ. Protestantism ii. ii. 122 I look upon Puseyism as an entirely legitimate and necessary reaction against..the religious subjectivism of the so called Low-Church Party; with which the significance of the Church has been forgotten, or at least practically undervalued, in favor of personal individual piety.

1848 Jrnl. Sacred Lit. Oct. 287 (note) Can the impiety and folly of subjectivism go further than in Hegel who avers explicitly..that God does not know himself at all, has no existence at all, until he arrives at a consciousness of himself in men?

1865 G. Grote Plato II. 361 He cannot be content..to be a measure for himself and for those whom his arguments may satisfy. This would be to proclaim what some German critics denounce as Subjectivism.

1882 T. Davidson tr. A. Rosmini Philos. Syst. p. xxvi The subjectivism of Descartes and Malebranche.

1900 Pilot 23 June 515/1 This would..eliminate the danger of subjectivism, and secure that the points emphasized should not be merely personal or of local..importance.

1905 J. Orr Probl. Old Test. (1906) v. 119 These methods seem to us eaten through with an arbitrary subjectivism which vitiates their application at every point.

1942 Economica 9 286 That he [sc. the social scientist] systematically starts from the concepts which guide individuals in their actions, is the characteristic feature of that methodological individualism which is closely connected with the subjectivism of the social sciences.

1975 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. Nov. 1320/2 The appellate cases on planning and zoning all too frequently seem a jumble of inconsistencies reflecting either inordinate judicial subjectivism or undue judicial acquiescence.

1989 M. A. Notturno Perspectives on Psychologism 172 The subjectivism of regarding what the subject ‘knows’ as being justified by the subject's private experiences.

2009 P. B. Ebrey et al. East Asia v. xxv. 439 People learned to interpret any deviation from Mao's line as defects in their thinking due to their subjectivism and liberalism.

1857 W. Fleming Vocab. Philos. 492 Subjectivism is the doctrine of Kant, that all human knowledge is merely relative; or rather that we cannot prove it to be absolute.

1872 G. S. Morris tr. F. Ueberweg Hist. Philos. I. 72 Protagoras the Individualist, Gorgias the Nihilist, Hippias the Polymathist, and Prodicus the Moralist..were followed by a younger generation of Sophists, who perverted the philosophical principle of subjectivism more and more, till it ended in mere frivolity.

1884 D. Hunter tr. E. Reuss Hist. Canon xviii. 388 The eighteenth century..which gave birth to a subjectivism so boundless as to end in denying the reality of the world.

1911 W. McDougall Body & Mind v. 67 Berkeley..rejected altogether the ‘unknown somewhat’ that we call matter, while retaining the equally unknown somewhat that we call spirit; thus he let loose the modern flood of subjectivism and scepticism.

1969 W. K. C. Guthrie Hist. Greek Philos. III. i. vii. 184 For him [sc. Aristotle] Protagoras's was a doctrine of pure subjectivism or relativism.

1990 D. Zohar Quantum Self vii. 78 Idealism doesn't sit well with our common-sense intuitions about the world of experience, and it is ill-suited to the pursuit of objective science—to wit the new subjectivism arising from popular quantum physics.

2012 R. Schwartz Rethinking Pragmatism vii. 126 Subjectivism would rule, and there would be no distinction between fact and fiction.

1897 W. B. Pillsbury & E. B. Titchener tr. O. Külpe Introd. Philos. 111 The aim of morality is for subjectivism the production of a subjective state, that of pleasure or happiness (hedonism and eudæmonism).

1909 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 350 So far from weakening religious beliefs of an enlightened kind, ethical subjectivism in no way affects the question of their veracity.

1989 J. B. Callicott In Def. Land Ethic iii. vii. 121 Hume's ethical subjectivism..does not necessarily imply that right and wrong..are..existentially indeterminate, nor does his theory collapse into an emotive relativism.