Kant also sometimes uses the notion of "objective reality" (objektive Realität) to characterize objectively valid representations that apply specifically to actually or really existing objects, and not to merely possible objects (A242 n).. True judgments are thus objectively real propositions.
He developed the notion of objective sui generis "social facts" to delineate a unique empirical object for the science of sociology to study.
"This whole notion of objective, detached journalism is not trusted by our audience," Mr. Brown said.
Questioning the notion of objective knowledge, he pointed out that "man is a participant, not an objective observer".
Postmodernism, I argued, challenges the notion of objective truth and rejects the possibility of a transcendent ethical perspective.
The apparent implication of these examples is that there is some other, more modest notion of objective truth in play in such disputes.
Conversely, modern philosophy, beginning with Descartes, appreciated the value of subjectivity as a philosophical starting point but failed to develop an adequate notion of objective truth.
These "antirealist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry.
True to the surrealist notion of "objective hazard" (a random but ultimately fortuitous happening), the show was beset by problems which, added to the planned surprises, made it a veritable festival of the best that surrealism had to offer.
At General Mills, it would seem, the whole notion of objective truth has been replaced by a kind of value-neutral consumer constructivism, in which each sovereign shopper constructs his own reality: "Taste You Can Believe In".
