For example, he wrote, "Sufism... states that man may become objective, and that objectivity enables the individual to grasp 'higher' facts.
But who is to guard that objectivity?
Most conspicuously, perhaps, postmodernist theory has raised its ultra-skeptical head to allege that objectivity being impossible, there is no truth.
"By implying that objectivity is a historically framed activity, he challenges established methods that led to disciplines like anthropology, archaeology and zoology".
Scornful of "all that objectivity shit" and intemperate in her judgments — friends were exiled, lovers dismissed — Gellhorn was driven to her itinerant existence by a terror of boredom.
Like the attacks on Beauchamp and The New Republic, that failure showed that objectivity is no longer an aspiration of people who make it their business to comment on the war every day.
"I wanted to watch what we did at Encores! to give me a sense of the overall production, the big picture, and I had never had the opportunity to have that objectivity," Ms. Murphy said.
But Mr. Murdoch and his lieutenants have made two significant bets: that the cachet and reputation of The Wall Street Journal are elastic enough to encompass a much broader array of news and that objectivity in a general-interest newspaper is a losing strategy.
The idea was that objectivity would yield better research.
Never forget that objectivity decreases exponentially with increasing solo effort.
We observe that objectivity is neither possible nor desirable in classification.
