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| − | + | Being true to the way the world really is, not merely reflecting the inner nature of the individual subject . A functional definition would address the clarity of the task at hand and some criterion for assessing veridicality. The supremacy of objectivity as an epistemological virtue has been challenged from several quarters in recent years. Some Feminists deride the notion of the “objective” thinker or agent as surreptitiously gendered, and as early as the Nineteenth Century Kierkegaard proclaimed, “Truth is Subjectivity.” | |
Latest revision as of 11:47, 21 September 2015
Being true to the way the world really is, not merely reflecting the inner nature of the individual subject . A functional definition would address the clarity of the task at hand and some criterion for assessing veridicality. The supremacy of objectivity as an epistemological virtue has been challenged from several quarters in recent years. Some Feminists deride the notion of the “objective” thinker or agent as surreptitiously gendered, and as early as the Nineteenth Century Kierkegaard proclaimed, “Truth is Subjectivity.”