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Objectivity and Objectivism

The term Objective can refer to:

• Objective approach, a way of judging or interpreting a situation.
  • Objective truth
  • Objective test
  • Objective analysis
• Objective correlative a literary term popularized by T.S. Eliot: to find an object, a set of objects, a situation –- something concrete that evokes the emotion the artist wants to express.
• Project objective, an expected business benefit in the context of project management.
• Design objective, a desired performance characteristic for communications circuits.
• Objective-C, a programming language.
• Objective (grammar) a pronoun which functions as the target of a verb
• Objective case direct or indirect object of verb or object of preposition

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Objectivity can mean:

• Objectivity (philosophy), encompassing epistemic, metaphysical, and psychometric objectivity
• Objectivity (journalism), encompassing reporting with a neutral point of view, reporting without bias, and emphasis on eyewitness accounts and verifiable facts
• New Objectivity - an art movement which arose in Germany during the 1920s.
• neutral point of view

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The terms Objectivism/Objectivist can refer to:

• Objectivism (metaphysics), a philosophical stance that holds that reality is objective.
• Moral objectivism, an ethical position that certain acts are objectively right or wrong.
• Objectivist Philosophy, a philosophy created by writer Ayn Rand:
  • Ayn Rand Institute
  • The Objectivist Center
  • Objectivist movement
  • Objectivist ethics
  • Objectivist epistemology
  • Libertarianism and Objectivism
  • Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
  • Criticism of Objectivism
• Neo-Objectivism a large family of philosophical viewpoints and cultural values descended from Objectivist philosophy.
• The group of writers known as the Objectivist poets.

[edit] See also

• Object disambiguation page
• Object (philosophy), a thing, entity, or being.
• Object theory is a theory in philosophy concerning the nature of ideas.
• Epistemology the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, origin and scope of knowledge.
• Metaphysics a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of "first principles" and "being" (ontology).
• Pseudophilosophy