For two reasons, then, the medieval conception of rights can be thought of as "objective": first, because the things which are right are objects (and not subjects); second, because things become worthy of the label "right" when they satisfy an objective, agent-independent set of necessity and sufficient conditions, viz., those conditions required for conformity to the natural law.
Or should we say that we need to distinguish 'chance' and 'probabillity' after all and hold that not all objective probabilities should be thought of as objective chances?
In a paper published last week in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, a team of brain scientists and prominent magicians described how magic tricks, both simple and spectacular, take advantage of glitches in how the brain constructs a model of the outside world from moment to moment, or what we think of as objective reality.
And finally, academic papers, which everyone thinks of as objective, are often covertly planned and written by people who work directly for the companies, without disclosure.
But I just think as far as the long term objectives that I have -- which are restoring the principles of this country -- I think it was necessary to prevent those principles from being really kind of wiped out for a generation.
I think as things develop we can start to adjust our objectives to better achievements.
These are the things surrounding us that are in our intimate environment and we like to think of them as objective givens.
We like to think of scientists as objective truth-seekers, but we are all too human and academia is intensely political, and a powerful author who receives a critical review from a more junior scientist could be in a position to do great harm to the reviewer's career prospects.
"I think it was about as objective as we can expect in a war time situation where journalists are covering the military of their own country," he said.
The thought supporting the use of NPV as objective functions is to takes more consideration of the economics of the project rather than representing a single value if consider cumulative oil production or else.
