subjectivist
IPA: sʌbdʒˈɛktɪvɪst
noun
- One who subscribes to subjectivism
adjective
- (philosophy) Regarding subjective experience as fundamental.
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Examples of "subjectivist" in Sentences
- The problem may be that I take the subjectivist paradigm in economics fairly seriously.
- Desire-based theories of value (or reasons) are sometimes called 'subjectivist', and contrasted with 'objective' theories.
- One is that rhetoric becomes a kind of subjectivist expressionism - you play around with language and hope that something interesting pops out.
- Meinong's early theory of value (1894; 1895) can be dubbed a subjectivist theory insofar as Meinong holds the thesis that there are values because of our value attitudes
- Other interpretations are "subjectivist," taking probabilities to be measures of "degrees of belief," perhaps evidenced in behavior in situations of risk by choices of available lotteries over outcomes.
- At first, this might seem surprising, as the frequency interpretation is usually contrasted with the "subjectivist" approach to probability advanced by de Finetti and, among economists, usually associated with Keynes.
- The Industrial Revolution along with its strongly anthropocentric and subjectivist philosophical trends, especially those resulting from the influences of Kant, Hume and Hegel, led to the emergence also of Marxism and Positivism.
- (accepted, that is, by economists, though unfamiliar to most other people) was formulated in the early 1870s by "the celebrated trinity," William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras, and Carl Menger, the progenitor of the Austrian or "subjectivist" economics embraced by Mises and other
- Given certain subjectivist epistemological-cum-metaphysical assumptions having their origins in Descartes and the early empiricists, the idealistic consequences drawn from them by Kant, Hegel, and succeeding generations of German and British philosophers were, if not quite inevitable, at least extremely natural.
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