subjectivisticadj.
/səbˌdʒɛktᵻˈvɪstɪk/, /ˌsʌbˌdʒɛktᵻvˈɪstɪk/, U.S. /səbˌdʒɛktəˈvɪstɪk/ Of or relating to subjectivism.
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the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > subjectivity, relation to self > [adjective]
internal1547
subjective1707
unobjective1828
subjectivistic1854
autocentrica1866
non-objective1865
non-referential1925
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > hedonism > [adjective] > of or supporting doctrines related to hedonism
selfish1751
subjectivistic1854
energistic1896
1854 A. Edersheim tr. H. M. Chalybäus Hist. Devel. Speculative Philos. xviii. 434 Instead of having advanced the furthest, this philosophising has unmistakeably returned in essentials to the standing-point of Kant, and criticism, in as far as it had been subjectivistic, has thereby finished..its circuit.
1884 W. James in Unitarian Rev. Sept. 210 I will..speak rather of subjectivism, and the subjectivistic point of view.
1886 A. Edersheim Life Jesus (new ed.) I. 208 (note) True religion is ever objectivistic, sensuous subjectivistic.
1897 W. B. Pillsbury & E. B. Titchener tr. O. Külpe Introd. Philos. 227 Subjectivistic ethics, following psychology, has taken two different forms, those of hedonism and eudæmonism.
1945 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 5 525 In spite of these subjectivistic formulations, we find that in practice these authors use an objectivistic method in solving any particular logical problem.
2010 T. Burge Origins Objectivity ii. iv. 118 Frege's work..is very far from Russell's subjectivistic epistemology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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