subjectivism
noun/səbˈd͡ʒɛktəvɪzm̩/
Etymology From subjective + -ism.
1
The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.
2
Epistemology, Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition.
- Subjectivism takes as its allies the emotions, intuitive insight, imagination, humaneness, art, and a “higher” truth.1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 25, in Metaphors We Live By:
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Ethics, Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.
- Antonyms
- objectivism
- Derived terms
- antisubjectivism
- Coordinate terms
- relativism