Under Ochs, the Times institutionalized the notion of nonpartisan, objective reporting.
It demolished the notion of an objective reality with all that it implied: the unity of nature, both human and physical, the universality of natural laws, the determination of physical processes, and the ability of science to solve all problems of the natural world.
When I finally wrote something he did like, defending the notion of an "objective past" against his attacks, he said, "This is exactly the kind of response I was trying to provoke!'" He was never pushing a paradoxical view for its own sake.
THE notion of an objective, natural reality, separate from human intervention, was damaged beyond repair in the 20th century.
At the extreme end, feminist epistemology is closely associated with postmodernism and its radical attack on truth and the notion of objective reality.[69] The author would like to thank Earl Conee for his help, both philosophical and editorial.
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.
In turn, attacks on science weaken the foundation of the notion of a shared objective reality on which democracy depends to function.
Postmodernism, I argued, challenges the notion of objective truth and rejects the possibility of a transcendent ethical perspective.
To a good Leninist, the very notion of an objective press is a liberal piety.
Antony maintains that naturalized epistemology resolves the "paradox of bias" (how one can consistently critique male bias and at the same time object to the notion of unbiased, neutral, objective, or impartial knowledge).
