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subjectivity

[suhb-jek-tiv-i-tee] / ˌsʌb dʒɛkˈtɪv ɪ ti /


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Traditionalists, though, may feel that subjectivity is simply part of the sport.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The court’s language frames the issue as biology vs. identity, objectivity vs. subjectivity, reality vs. fiction.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

"Bringing these two fields together can open up for a more holistic psychology, in which both neurological mechanisms and subjective experience are included. In this way, we can understand subjectivity in a more scientific manner."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026

Kalshi is replacing debate, subjectivity, and talk with markets, accuracy, and truth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

It is an exercise, simultaneously, in a new objectivity and a new subjectivity.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Furthermore, the album engages with Berlant's concept of gendered subjectivities, which emphasizes the fluid and performative nature of identity.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024

A Shakespeare play is not a political statement, it’s a mosh pit of subjectivities, and here the audience was expected to sit back and rationally parse a theatrical Rorschach blot.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2020

“Awareness that one’s self possesses multiple possible subjectivities or identities resists categorization,” he writes.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2018

And yet there is a compelling argument to be made, more generally, that journalism’s putative standards of objectivity are sometimes wielded to check not subjectivity, per se, but unwanted subjectivities.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2015

Following Clifford, I will call these inferred subjectivities by the name of ejects, and assign to them the symbol y.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by George John Romanes


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