Converting into an object.Ob*jec"tive (?), a. [Cf.F.
objectif.] 1. Of or pertaining to an
object.
2. (Metaph.) Of or pertaining to an
object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object;
outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir
exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought
or feeling, and opposed to subjective.
In the Middle Ages, subject meant
substance, and has this sense in Descartes and Spinoza:
sometimes, also, in Reid. Subjective is used by William of
Occam to denote that which exists independent of mind;
objective, what is formed by the mind. This shows what is
meant by realitas objectiva in Descartes. Kant and Fichte have
inverted the meanings. Subject, with them, is the mind which
knows; object, that which is known; subjective, the
varying conditions of the knowing mind; objective, that which
is in the constant nature of the thing known.
Trendelenburg.Objective means that which belongs to, or
proceeds from, the object known, and not from the subject knowing,
and thus denotes what is real, in opposition to that which is ideal -
- what exists in nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the
thought of the individual.
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