Subjective Sentence Examples

In the notion of a teleological connexion and in that which for spirit is its subjective expression, viz.

That may be a mere subjective fancy.

As it dilates the blood-vessels of the skin it increases the subjective sensation of warmth.

It thus represented a subjective creation, not an objective fact.

Petiifi was more subjective, more individual; Arany was more objective and national.

The idea of an objective flux, or law of change constituting the reality of things, is abandoned, and subjective points of sense alone remain - which is tantamount to eliminating the real from human knowledge.

His theory is quite distinct from this, which really amounts to nothing more than subjective idealism.

It is for this reason that it is sometimes known as subjective or incomplete idealism.

But the Fichtean teaching appeared on the one hand to identify too closely the ultimate ground of the universe of rational conception with the finite, individual spirit, and on the other hand to endanger the reality of the world of nature by regarding it too much after the fashion of subjective idealism, as mere moment, though necessitated, in the existence of the finite thinking mind.

In this sense the subjective character is of prime importance.

Now, it is subjective history which we find in the earliest references to Midrash.

Ultimately it may come down to a subjective opinion.

He holds that nothing exists except presentations, which are not merely sensational, and have an objective aspect no less than a subjective.

In his Principles of Psychology he twice quotes his point that " what we are conscious of as properties of matter, even down to its weight and resistance, are but subjective affections produced by objective agencies which are unknown and unknowable."

If so, then all we know is these phenomena, affections of consciousness, subjective affections, but produced by an unknown power.

Now, Spencer has clearly, though unconsciously, changed the meaning of the term " phenomenon " from subjective affection of consciousness to any fact of nature, in regarding all this evolution, cosmic, organic, mental, social and ethical, as an evolution of phenomena.

And it is objective, not subjective, reason.

Both bodies of exposition represent the traditional principle at work in the sub-apostolic age, making for the preservation in relative purity, over against merely subjective interpretations - those of the Gnostics in particular - of the historic or original sense of Christ's teaching, just as Ignatius stood for the historicity of the facts of His earthly career in their plain, natural sense.

This is not a prominent feature in Plotinus or his immediate disciples, who still exhibit full confidence in the subjective presuppositions of their philosophy.

The author himself says that it is transfigured realism - which is realism in asserting objective existence as separate from subjective existence, but anti-realism in denying that objective existence is to be known.

With this powerful instrument of dialectic in hand, he attempted to show how absolute reason differentiates itself into subjective and objective, ideal and real, and yet is the identity of both - an identity of opposites, as Schelling had said.

Nothing could be more like Hume than his final statement that what we are conscious of is subjective affections produced by objective agencies unknown and unknowable.

The objective sense of 7rLares has begun to overpower the subjective.

The attempt of Donaldson' to reconstruct it is largely subjective and uncritical.

Percentage of success rates have to be highly subjective.

But such is not esoteric knowledge or what we have now called subjective theosophy.

The process of constructing a thesaurus in the humanities becomes at some point a subjective affair.

Whatever is to be said of ancient Idealism, the modern doctrine may be said notably in Kant to have been in the main a vindication of the subjective factor in knowledge.

The work is considered too subjective and fanciful, the great fault of the author being that he lacks the impartiality of objective historical insight.

However, with all the author's disclaimers, the general effect left on the reader's mind is that throughout the universe there is an unceasing change of matter and motion, that evolution is always such a change, that it begins with phenomena in the sense of physical facts, gradually issues in life and consciousness, and ends with phenomena in the sense of subjective affections of consciousness.

Similarly, both in First Principles and in the Principles of Psychology, he assigns to us, in addition to our definite consciousness of our subjective affections, an indefinite consciousness of something out of consciousness, of something which resists, of objective existence.

Thus it turns out that the objective agency, the noumenal power, the absolute force, declared unknown and unknowable, is known after all to exist, persist, resist and cause our subjective affections or phenomena, yet not to think or to will.

According to him, we begin with an experience of ideas, in which object and idea are originally identical (V orstellungsobject); we divide this unitary experience into its subjective and objective factors; and especially in natural science we so far abstract the objects as to believe them at last to be independent things; but it is the office of psychology to warn us against this popular dualism, and to teach us that there is only a duality of psychical and physical, which are divisible, not separable, factors of one and the same content of our immediate experience; and experience is our whole knowledge.

Finally, Western minds may be free again to reason rather than just emote, to pursue objective truth rather than subjective virtue ' .

The cycles of the zodiac are also calculated by dividing them into thirds (primordial, individual and universal), and further into halves (objective and subjective).

The reason becomes subjective by relation to the voluntary and free self; but in itself it is impersonal; it belongs not to this or to that self in humanity; it belongs not even to humanity.

These principles of reason, cause and substance, given thus psychologically, enable us to pass beyond the limits of the relative and subjective to objective and absolute reality, - enable us, in a word, to pass from psychology, or the science of knowledge, to ontology or the science of being.

With Anselm Ritschl takes Abelard, who explains the Atonement simply by God's love, and thus is the forerunner of " moral " or " subjective " modern theories as Anselm is of the " objective " or " forensic " theory.

While right and wrong, in Price's view, are " real objective qualities " of actions, moral " beauty and deformity " are subjective ideas; representing feelings which are partly the necessary effects of the perceptions of right and wrong in rational beings as such, partly due to an " implanted sense " or varying emotional susceptibility.

So far as subjective thought is concerned, possibility, not real existence, is contained in any judgment.

Apart, then, from the expanded treatment of space and time as subjective forms, we find in the Dissertation little more than the very precise and definite formulation of the slowly growing opposition to the Leibnitzian doctrines.

The problem of the Kritik thus becomes for Kant the complete statement of the elements necessarily involved in synthesis, and of the subjective processes by which these elements are realized in our individual consciousness.

No attempt is made to show how or why the difference supplied for the pure logical ego should present itself necessarily under these forms. They are regarded rather as portions of the subjective mechanism of the individual consciousness.

Unfortunately for the consistency of the Kritik, Kant does not attempt to work out systematically the elements involved in knowledge before considering the subjective processes by which knowledge is realized in consciousness.

He treats the elements of cognition separately in connexion with the several subjective processes involved in knowledge, viz.

In strictness, sense, understanding, imagination and reason ought to have had their functions defined in close relation to the elements of knowledge with which they are severally connected, and as these elements have no existence as separate facts, but only as factors in the complex organic whole, it might have been possible to avoid the error of supposing that each subjective process furnished a distinct, separately cognizable portion of a mechanical whole.

The relation between phenomena and noumena in the Kantian system does not in the least resemble that which plays so important a part in modern psychology - between the subjective results of sense affection and the character of the objective conditions of such affection.

This intermediate process - which is really the junction of understanding and sense - Kant calls productive imagination, and it is only through productive imagination that knowledge or experience is actually realized in our subjective consciousness.

Under the dynamical principles, the general modes in which the existence of objects are determined, fall the analogies of experience, or general rules according to which the existence of objects in relation to one another can be determined, and the postulates of experience, the general rules according to which the existence of objects for us or our own subjective existence can be determined.

The distinction between phenomena and noumena is, therefore, nothing but the expression of the distinction between understanding and reason, a distinction which, according to Kant, is merely subjective.

In the first place, the adaptation may be merely subjective, when the empirical condition for the exercise of judgment is furnished by the feeling of pleasure or pain; such adaptation is aesthetic. In the second place, the adaptation may be objective or logical, when empirical facts are given of such a kind that their possibility can be conceived only through the notion of the end realized in them; such adaptation is teleological, and the empirical facts in question are organisms.

End in nature, therefore, is a subjective or problematic conception, implying the limits of understanding, and consequently resting upon the idea of an understanding constituted unlike ours - of an intuitive understanding in which particular and universal should be given together.

There is a subjective sensation of mental brilliance, but, as in other cases, this is not borne out by the objective results.

Once we divorce the subjective aspect from the objective, such a philosophy becomes transformed into sheer revolutionary adventurism.

Safety judgment is a subjective process because it entails the prediction of the likelihood and severity of hazards in the absence of complete foreknowledge.

There were no significant differences between those taking ginkgo and those taking placebo on any of the objective or subjective measures.

Further, we have the concept of subjective intensions.

Medical images are often complex, of poor visual quality and open to subjective interpretation.

That would include subjective judgments such as " Is the parent providing a positive role model?

Nor may we judge him as a lyrical poet by comparison with any subjective lyrist.

Screening is an essentially subjective procedure in which managers use their knowledge and experience to weed out obvious non-starters.

Social identity may not necessarily be objectively observable - it may be largely a subjective construction.

Race analysis is developed in its ability to explain the subjective dimension of racial oppression.

The understanding of history is therefore informed and determined by coincidence and subjective perception.

This is an unnatural posture for designers, who work in intuitive and subjective ways.

Green explains why imagination is necessary in reading the Bible, but how this doesn't make everything problematically subjective.

Hence, we are not talking about some purely subjective process of letting one's imagination run wild.

Beside which, such an endeavor must be entirely subjective.

The nature of this type of research means that, to a point, data analysis is somewhat subjective.

But this does not mean they should be merely subjective.

Some objective testing of these essentially subjective judgments have been initiated through cooperation with other persons.

The difficulty in measuring drop-out rates from distance learning programs is that the question of having dropped out becomes very subjective.

Consequently, automatic multiple structural alignments across the whole superfamily can be become unreliable and are often subjective.

The challenge to ' produce a sura like it ' is completely subjective.

Analysis of postural motion during exposure to the moving room revealed increases in postural sway before the onset of subjective motion sickness symptoms.

Why, whenever there is an environmental debate, do people have to aver emotional and subjective viewpoints as fact?

Whether an harmonious conception thus gained will represent more than an agreement among our thoughts, whether it will represent the real connexion of things and thus possess objective not merely subjective value, cannot be decided at the outset.

In the later intuitionalism of Hamilton, recoiling from Hegel, the many subjective necessities of the intuitionalist scheme were made to breathe the new agnostic suggestions.

His system is based on the unifying principle of imagination (Phantasie), which he extends to the objective creative force of Nature, as well as to the subjective mental phenomena to which the term is usually confined.

Written by an Oriental people and clothed in an Oriental dress, the Old Testament does not contain objective records, but subjective history written and incorporated for specific purposes.

In these works he emphasized the identity of the subjective and the objective for consciousness, and the fact that the perception of this unity is peculiar to man.

This climax was reached at the very moment when Darwin was publishing the Origin of Species (1859), by which universal opinion has been brought to the position that species, as well as genera, orders and classes, are the subjective expressions of a vast ramifying pedigree in which the only objective existences are individuals, the apparent species as well as higher groups being marked out, not by any distributive law, but by the interaction of living matter and its physical environment, causing the persistence of some forms and the destruction of vast series of ancestral intermediate kinds.

Cause has no existence apart from the mind which perceives; its validity is ideal, or, as Kant would have said, subjective.

From the point of view which Berkeley had inherited from Locke it seemed to follow that not only material substance, but the whole conception of a world of objects, is at most an inference from subjective modifications which are the only immediately certain objects of knowledge.

And just as mind does not lose but gain in individuality in proportion as it parts with any claim to the capricious determination of what its world shall be, and becomes dominated by the conception of an order which is immutable so the will becomes free and " personal " in proportion as it identifies itself with objects and interests, and subordinates itself to laws and requirements which involve the suppression of all that is merely arbitrary and subjective.

It is doubtful how far Ezekiel's account of the cherubim and Isaiah's account of the seraphim are to be taken as descriptions of actual beings; they are probably figurative, or else subjective visions.

He thinks that he is always speaking of phenomena in the sense of subjective affections; and in spite of his definition, he half unconsciously changes the meaning of evolution from a change in matter and motion, first into a change in states of consciousness, then to a change in social institutions, and finally into a change in moral motives.

The conclusion of his epistemology is that we start with ourselves positing subjective sensations - e.g.

Nevertheless, as he believes all the time that everything knowable throughout the whole world of evolution is phenomena in the sense of subjective affections of consciousness, and as he applies Hume's distinction of impressions and ideas as a distinction of vivid and faint states of consciousness to the distinction of ego and non-ego, spirit and matter, inner and outer phenomena, his philosophy of the world as knowable remains within the limits of phenomenalism.

Here Schiller arrives at his definition of beauty, as Freiheit in der Erscheinung, which, although it failed to remove Kant's difficulty that beauty was essentially a subjective conception, marked the beginning of a new stage in the history of German aesthetic theory.

Ere rationalismus vulgaris fell before the combined assault of Schleiermacher's subjective theology and the deeper historical insight of the Hegelians, it had found a refuge successively in the Kantian postulates of the practical reason, and in the vague but earnest faith-philosophy of Jacobi.

A major interpretational feature of this piece is to achieve the subjective accent on the first of each pair of quaver chords occurring throughout.

The form of these propositions collectively constitute a bridging process from the subjective expected utility theory of economics to the sociology of religion.

A thread of narrative runs through, and it 's all as subjective as hell.

Green explains why imagination is necessary in reading the Bible, but how this does n't make everything problematically subjective.

At this point it all becomes pretty subjective personal opinions all round.

The growth in powers to make such subjective judgements will raise public law problems.

The view that I follow is that of objective Idealism, rather than the more usual subjective Idealism.

One way of thinking about subjective probability is that it 's just an elaboration of the traditional notion of ` belief '.

It is sufficient for our purposes to model their subjective perceptions by choosing the cut-off value R m.

Hence, we are not talking about some purely subjective process of letting one 's imagination run wild.

Even examination with the hands is seen to be subjective in some sense.

Or are the incidents largely or wholly subjective in character?

The measurement of service quality is much harder than that for product quality as it is more subjective than objective.

Reading supposed subtexts can be nothing other than subjective unless she has a papyrus with the code on it.

Habitus represents Bourdieu 's attempt to theorize the ways in which the social distinctions are incorporated into subjective dispositions.

But such is not esoteric knowledge or what we have now called subjective Theosophy.

Knowledge, on the other hand, is vast in scope, subjective in relevance, increasing daily and becoming obsolete almost as quickly.

Pianos can cost as much or more than a car, can last a lifetime, have many subjective qualities, are difficult to compare one against another and are often purchased for different reasons.

Buyer guides contain some subjective material, by being based on the writers' and researchers' opinions.

The criteria for Newbery selections are loosely defined and very subjective.

Taste is a subjective sense and thus, what one person experiences may be different for the next.

It's all subjective; not winning does not necessarily say anything negative about your work.

Sensuality is a subjective term, so how you approach the composition of your sensual photography will depend on your own artistic aesthetic and how you want to market your work.

This is due in large part to the subjective nature of a woman's allure.

Instead, the burden is left to subjective interpretations of both the photographer and the viewer.

Since creativity is largely subjective, it pays to have an extra set of eyes evaluate your work after employing tips you've obtained from a book.

Whether organic food tastes better than conventional is subjective.

Stress is subjective and therefore difficult to define.

Celebrity lists are often subjective, so if you don't see a celebrity who you find especially sizzling on this list don't worry, it's all in good fun.

A list of the top 100 male actors would be subjective, depending on the criteria used to rate them.

They can be completely subjective, but they open the door to in-depth conversations about who is truly the best of the best in Hollywood.

In developing the list, the CDC emphasized that the reporting of the breed is subjective.

It should be stated from the outset that choosing the best dog breed for children is a very subjective project, and people have their own opinions based on their own experiences.

The only problem with the idea of designating the best guitar player of any style is that it is so subjective.

Like the fashion industry, this business can be subjective - what one agency or client loves will fall flat with another.

These things can be subjective, so what one person would consider kinky plus size lingerie, another might just think of as pretty, or even ordinary.

The "perfect" wedding and gown is subjective, because the term perfect means something different to each bride.

This is because what makes a city the "best" is subjective in nature.

Sleep is something subjective from person to person, but the fact is, everyone needs sleep.

While many interpretations are quite subjective, others have some scientific backing.

You can probably think of many different types of dreams, and it helps to recognize that dreaming is a subjective experience.

While the experiences, images and interpretations may be subjective, there are commonalities that make dreaming universal.

Whether they make you look more attractive is a subjective opinion, but most would agree that using Illusions colored contacts will certainly help you to look quite striking.

For anyone who wants the best coverage on the video game industry, both objective and subjective, the best place to turn is LoveToKnow Video Games.

Well, at least wine destinations according to my highly subjective and hardly quantifiable opinion.

Sweetness, like everything else in the world of wine, is subjective.

It's so difficult to answer the question as to who makes the best Pinot Noir because what people consider the best is so subjective.

Different people appreciate varying characteristics in the wine, so taste in wine is highly subjective; however, there are certain traits that are considered more desirable than others.

Finding the best wine of the month clubs is subjective.

Ultimately, wine scoring is highly subjective, and five different wine tasters will provide divergent assessments about the quality of the wine.

Book collecting values are subjective, just like the value of fine art, antiques or other collectibles.

Appearance, or the aesthetic appeal of the bottle is a minor factor in determining value because it is so subjective.

What is truly best is a subjective process.

As with many other comparisons that you may find all over the Internet, this article that pits the Motorola Droid X vs. iPhone 4 will be somewhat subjective in nature.

However, pain is more than a sensation or the physical awareness of pain; it also includes perception, the subjective interpretation of the discomfort.

Since pain is a subjective experience, it may be very difficult to communicate its exact quality and intensity to other people.

Aura-A subjective sensation or motor phenomenon that precedes and indicates the onset of a neurological episode, such as a migraine or an epileptic seizure.

Because a reliable subjective response is difficult or impossible in a young patient electrophysiological testing is often performed.

Patient recovery is determined by cognitive function changes, subjective symptoms, and return to school or work.

Most are objective and quantifiable; however, certain projective tests may involve some level of subjective interpretation.

If the examiner is not well-trained in psychometric evaluation, subjective interpretations may affect the evaluation of these tests.

The reliability of these tests with children is difficult to establish due to their subjective nature, with results varying widely among different examiners.

Pain scales or questionnaires are used to attach an objective measure to a subjective experience.

Although subjective assessment by teachers can provide valuable insight, objective tests that specifically measure academic and other skills must be included in the IEP.

The IMB contends that motivation to engage in prevention behaviors is a function of one's attitudes toward the behavior and of subjective norms regarding prevention behaviors.

Those on the vegan diet experienced subjective relief of rheumatic stiffness and joint swellings and an improvement in general wellbeing.

They call for better diagnostic procedures conducted by trained personnel rather than relying primarily on subjective observations by parents and teachers.

A final consistent concern relates to the scoring of creativity tests, which by definition are somewhat subjective.

Dance is, by nature, a subjective skill, and it's certainly possible for a performer to be technically perfect but artistically poor, and vice versa.

The subjective and personal nature of art makes it one of the best academic subjects for taking an unschooling approach to learning.

The best careers in nursing are somewhat subjective because people enter this field for different reasons.

Remember that the entire process is subjective, so one person's favorite place may cause you to run for the hills.

However, it's important to keep in mind that good writing is subjective.

Keep in mind that reading the cards is as subjective for others as it is for you.

Fun, like cool, is purely subjective, so the definition of a fun backpack will vary depending on your kids' personalities, likes, and hobbies.

Finally, remember that movie reviews are completely subjective.

The best scary movies, like many prior banned horror films, are subjective.

The interpretation of literature is highly subjective, so a summary only provides one possible outlook on the topic.

Much of the financial advice you see in the media is subjective.

When it comes to identifying the best spoilers for One Life to Live, the answer is subjective.

It's important to remember that while pain is subjective, the piercing process itself is over very quickly; the extended healing time is where a piercing can become irritated or painful.

That depends on how well you handle pain, and it's a subjective question that will warrant a different response from each person you ask.

The pain of a belly button piercing is subjective, and the aftercare process is time consuming and requires responsibility.

Finally, remember that while the pain of a piercing may be subjective, the look and feel of a healed belly button piercing is worth the time and effort.

The pain of a piercing is a very subjective topic.

In my opinion, for a product to be successful it is important to have a motivated reason for any design decision, and to be elusive of any subjective preferences of the designer.

Because many of the symptoms are highly subjective, the full list of symptoms needs to be evaluated by trained personnel experienced in interacting with autistic children.

Trying to figure out what the physical signs of autism are is a frustrating process because what few there are can be almost completely subjective.

However, the way in which you respond to ethical situations will always be subjective.

These are more than just the subjective opinion of one person.

Finding a good French translator is a subjective experience.

The monetary value of art can be quite subjective, and this is why it is important to find an insurance policy that is suitable for works of art and the tools used to create them.

The top 10 best science fiction starships of all time is a very subjective list, but the ships are representative of some of the best and most rooted for vessels in television and film.

Trying to identify which science fiction shows can be whittled down onto a list of only the top 5 means you have to apply very specific and subjective criteria to the list.

When it comes right down to it, the decision to include or exclude is purely subjective.

Since both of these are fairly subjective motivations, this article will simply presume that you have good reasons for wanting to use one to surf the web.

Using subjective or eccentric images is not recommended for most web pages.

To this conclusion Berkeley seems, in the first place, to have been led by the train of reflection that naturally conducts to subjective or egoistic idealism.

His exegesis owes its interest to his subjective resources rather than to breadth of learning; his power lay in spiritual vision rather than balanced judgment, and in the vivid apprehension of the factors which make the Christian personality, rather than in constructive doctrinal statement.

He maintained that the physical and the psychical are two orders which are parallel without interference; that the physical or objective order is merely phenomena, or groups of feelings, or " objects," while the psychical or subjective order is both a stream of feelings of which we are conscious in ourselves, and similar streams which we infer beyond ourselves, or, as he came to call them, " ejects "; that, if we accept the doctrine of evolution at all, we must carry these ejective streams of feelings through the whole organic world and beyond it to the inorganic world, as a " quasimental fact "; that at bottom both orders, the physical phenomena and the psychical streams, are reducible to feelings; and that therefore there is no reason against supposing that they are made out of the same " mind-stuff," which is the thing-in-itself.

He infers the corollary that universal experience contains the same duality of subjective and objective factors without dualism.

From Reid he adopted the belief in an external world beyond sensation, from Biran the explanation of personality by will, from Schelling the identification of all reason in what he called " impersonal reason," which he supposed to be identical in God and man, to be subjective and objective, psychological and ontological.

Secondly, there are so-called " subjective sensations," without any external object as stimulus, most commonly in vision, but also in touch, which is liable to formication, or the feeling of creeping in the skin, and to horripilation, or the feeling of bristling in the hair; yet, even in " subjective sensations," we perceive something sensible, which, however, must be within, and not outside, the organism.

But in such an undertaking one is always apt to take subjective assumptions or mere fancies for established data.

Melanchthon felt the spell of Luther's personality and spiritual depth, and seems to have been prepared on his first arrival at Wittenberg to accept the new theology, which as yet existed mainly in subjective form in the person of Luther.

For this reason the book is at once the most brilliant and the most difficult of Hegel's works - the most brilliant because it is to some degree an autobiography of Hegel's mind - not the abstract record of a logical evolution, but the real history of an intellectual growth; the most difficult because, instead of treating the rise of intelligence (from its first appearance in contrast with the real world to its final recognition of its presence in, and rule over, all things) as a purely subjective process, it exhibits this rise as wrought out in historical epochs, national characteristics, forms of culture and faith, and philosophical systems. The theme is identical with the introduction to the Encyklopddie; but it is treated in a very different style.

Thought became only the result of organic conditions - subjective and human; and the system of Hegel was no longer an idealization of religion, but a naturalistic theory with a prominent and peculiar logic.

Under the head of notion are considered, firstly, the subjective forms of conception, judgment and syllogism; secondly, their realization in objects as mechanically, chemically or teleologically constituted; and thirdly, the idea first of life, and next of science, as the complete interpenetration of thought and objectivity.

This has taken the direction on the one hand of a revival of realism (see Metaphysics), on the other of a new form of subjective idealism (see Pragmatism).

It will be perceived that an objective attitude to the subjective writings must be adopted, the starting-point is the writings themselves and not individual preconceptions of the authentic history which they embody.

The form of things is admittedly subjective; the mind endeavours to explain the material of the given in the same terms, an attempt which is not only impossible but involves a denial of the elementary laws of thought.

The casual concept, as given by experience, expresses not a necessary objective order of things, but an ordered scheme of perception; it is subjective and cannot be postulated as a concrete law apart from consciousness.

If, argued Protagoras in a treatise entitled Truth, all things are in flux, so that sensation is subjective, it follows that " Man is the measure of all things, of what is, that it is, and of what is not, that it is not "; in other words, there is no such thing as objective truth.

He lays too much stress upon the "concept," and explains too much by the Hegelian antithesis of subjective and objective.

Hegel, having identified being with thought, merged metaphysics in logic. But he divided logic into objective and subjective, and thus practically confessed that there is one science of the objects and another of the pro cesses of thought.

It is consciousness concerning the objective validity of a subjective combination of ideas, i.e.

The transition from judgment is not brought about by our subjective action.

Moral sense seemed to them a subjective affair, dangerous to the interests of religion.

The interpretation itself is markedly subjective; by the side of much that is legitimate exegesis, there is much that appears arbitrary in the extreme.

Reitor, depict country life and scenery with loving sympathy, and hold the reader by the charm of the characters, but Diniz is a rather subjective monotonous writer who lacks the power to analyse, and he is no psychologist.

These, being thus derived, are at once subjective and objective in their scope.

They exhibit the oratorical fervour, the pleader's eloquence in its most perfect lustre, which Petrarch possessed in no less measure than subjective passion.

The individual is prior to the universal, he says, not only "for us," but also in itself, and universals are abstractions which have merely a subjective existence in the intelligence which abstracts them.

Outside of his dialectic, it was in ethics that Abelard showed greatest activity of philosophical thought; laying very particular stress upon the subjective intention as determining, if not the moral character, at least the moral value, of human action.

As mere subjective function, which it is to the psychologist, it is best spoken of by an unambiguous name, and for this there seems none better than Intellection.

When we inquire into subjective conditions we are thinking of facts causing other facts.

But, if we desire to keep by older landmarks and maintain a distinction between the two disciplines, a ground for doing so may be found in the fact that all the main definitions of logic point to the investigation of the laws of thought in a subjective reference - with a view, that is, by an analysis of the operation, to ensure its more correct performance.

Perhaps by talking of "emotions" we tend to give an unduly subjective colour to the investigation; it would be better to speak of the perception of the beautiful.

But through all the periods of his life his view of the world was essentially religious and subjective, and, consequently, his manner of dealing with it hymnal or lyric. This fact, even more than his merits as an artist, serves to account for his immense popularity.

His mode of treatment is subjective and lyric. No matter what form his works assume, whether the epic, as in Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Hiawatha, the dramatic, as in The Spanish Student, The Golden Legend and The Mask of Pandora, or the didactic, as in The Psalm of Life and many of the minor poems; they are all subjective.

Next is related an event in which we may again see a subjective experience given under the form of an objective reality.

This brought them within the sphere of reflection, and gave as their guarantee the impossibility of thinking them reversed; and led to their being regarded as wholly relative to human intelligence, restricted to the sphere of the phenomenal, incapable of revealing to us substantial reality - necessary, yet subjective.

But further, it is becoming increasingly apparent that psychology (upon which Taylor would base morality) itself involves metaphysical assumptions; its position in fact cannot be stated except as a metaphysical position, whether that of subjective idealism or any other.

The former fall into the two classes of feelings (subjective) and perceptions (objective); the latter, according as the receptive or the spontaneous element predominates, into cognition and volition.

It is in those two functions that the real life of the ego is manifested, but behind them is self-consciousness permanently present, which is always both subjective and objective - consciousness of ourselves and of the non-ego.

Conscience, as the subjective expression of the presupposed identity of reason and nature in their bases, guarantees the practicability of our moral vocation.

This religious feeling is not knowledge in the strict sense, as it is purely subjective or immediate; but it lies at the basis of all knowledge.

Method is with him a synthetic, subjective and psychological instrument.

The subjective cast of his piety is reflected in his Mystical Marriage.

Some nominative formsDis (anciently Dios, and in the Castilian of the Jews Dlo), Cdrias, Mdrcos, sastre (s a r t 0 r) have been adopted instead of forms derived from the accusative, but the vulgar Latin of the Peninsula in no instance presents two forms (subjective and objective case) of the same substantIve.

The green and blue, so frequent in frogs and newts, are merely subjective colours, due to interference.

It may be asked how the individual mind comes to know himself and the system of things with which he is connected, how the varied contents of his experience are to be accounted for, and what certainty attaches to his subjective consciousness of things.

The very notion of relation between mind and things leads at once to the counter notion of the absolute restriction of mind to its own subjective nature.

Modesty is a highly subjective term, and selecting modest swimsuits for girls is a topic mothers and daughters have wrangled over for decades.

Obviously, determining the worst Christmas gifts is subjective.

Determining the greatest Christmas movies of all time is, of course, a subjective excerise, but there are a few of which most can agree are among the all-time best.

The word "deaf" is used to encompass a wide range of subjective experiences, from being hard of hearing to being born with no eardrums.

But it is impossible to admit within the circle of high-art productions these wooden figures of everyday men and women, unrelieved by any subjective element, and owing their merit entirely to the fidelity with which their contours are shaped, their muscles modelled, and their anatomical proportions preserved.

First, it stands in the line of post-Aristotelian systems; it is, in fact, as a subjective philosophy, their logical completion.

Moreover, Schopenhauer's subjective idealism, and his view of time as something illusory, hindered him from viewing this process as a sequence of events in time.

In view of the results of this analysis, Reid's theory (and the theory of Scottish philosophy generally) has been dubbed natural realism or natural dualism, in contrast to theories like subjective idealism and materialism or to the cosmothetic idealism or hypothetical dualism of the majority of philosophers.

The parts in the one case, the general name or common attributes in the other, are only, he seems to have argued, so many subjective points of view from which we choose to regard that which in its own essence is one and indivisible, existing in its own right apart from any connexion with other individuals.

There is, therefore, no absolute knowledge, for every man has different perceptions, and, further, arranges and groups his data in methods peculiar to himself; so that the sum total is a quantity with a purely subjective validity.

Thus, as has been said, it represents both the objective dependence of the phenomena and the subjective dependence of our means of knowing them.

Finally, by abstraction from the individual things of sense, the mind is able to contemplate the universal apart from its accompaniments (animal sine homine, asino, et aliis speciebus); these subjective existences are the universalia post rem of the Nominalists and Conceptualists.

But Kant's refutation of subjective idealism and his vindication of the place of the object can be fully understood only.

It is extremely difficult to avoid the subjective element in dealing with matters of fact, and the religious treatment of history is influenced, however unconsciously, by the mental environment of the writers.

Still, as we cannot allow every fancy of the subjective reason to assert itself, we require some new and potent principle to keep the imagination within bounds.

To merely subjective idealism, sense percepts differ from ideas of imagination in degree, not in kind; both belong to the individual mind.

Beck maintains that the real meaning of Kant's theory is idealism; that of objects outside the domain of consciousness, knowledge is impossible, and hence that nothing positive remains when we have removed the subjective element.

But there is also a widespread inclination to minimize, ignore or deny the objective aspect of the atonement, the effect of the death of Christ on God's attitude towards men; and to follow the moral theories in emphasizing the subjective aspect of the atonement, the influence of the Passion on man.

The theoretical side of inner nature in its successive grades from sensation to the highest form of spirit, the abstracting reason which emphasizes the difference of subjective and objective, leaves an unsolved problem which receives satisfaction only in the practical, the individualizing activity.

In the first place, his peculiar system of subjective idealism, involving the idea that time is but a mental form to which there corresponds nothing in the sphere of noiimenal reality, serves to give a peculiar philosophical interpretation to every doctrine of cosmic evolution.

Weiss (Das Neue Testament, Leipzig, 1894-1900), but the method followed in this is so subjective and pays so little attention to the evidence of the versions that it is not likely to be permanently important.

His lyrism is vigorous, feeling, austere and almost entirely subjective and personal, while his pamphlets are distinguished by energy of conviction, strength of affirmation, and contempt for weaker and more ignorant opponents.

Like most innovators, Roscellinus stated his position in bold language, which emphasized his opposition to accepted doctrines; and his words, if not his intentions, involved the extreme Nominalism which, by making universality merely subjective, pulverizes existence into detached particulars.

It may be defined as a didactic or homiletic development of some thought or theme, characterized by a more subjective, imaginative and ampliative treatment.

In the realm of ideas the absolute finds itself, has its own nature over against itself as objective over against subjective, and thus is in the way of overcoming its abstractness, of becoming concrete.

An attempt is made to get rid of the distinctive nature of miracle when the exceptionalness of the events so regarded is reduced to a new subjective mode of regarding natural phenomena.

Hegel undoubtedly meant to affirm that the actual was rational in the face of the philosophy which set up subjective feeling and reason against it.

The prominence given by most of the Sophists to rhetoric, their cultivation of a subjective readiness as the essential equipment for life, their substitution of persuasion for conviction, all mark the sceptical undertone of their teaching.

The subjective mechanism of association which with Berkeley is but part of the true explanation, and is dependent on the objective realization in the divine mind, has been received as in itself a satisfactory theory.

And finally, consider how nutrition affects other relative and subjective factors in our lives such as energy level and mood.

This seems to have been interpreted by its author and by the Sophists in general in a subjective sense, with the result that it became the motto of a sceptical and individualistic movement in contemporary philosophy and ethics.

The universal is, as Herbert Spencer remarked, a subjective idea, and the general forms, existing ante res, which play so prominent a part in Greek and medieval philosophy, do not in the least correspond to the homogeneous matter of the physical evolutionists.