subjectivism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience
noun the quality of being subjective

From subjective + -ism.

Subjectivism leads to corruption, 170. — The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James
Norman Smith, Subjectivism and Realism in Modern Philosophy, (Philosophical Review, Apr. — Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson
Owing to the inveterate subjectivism of his mental habits, he failed to notice that he had reversed the sense of the series by substituting backward synthesis for forward happening, and thus he supposed that it was necessary to identify the mental series, which had no end, with the physical series, which had an end but no beginning. — Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

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