Feminist postmodernism rejects traditional conceptions of universal or absolute objectivity and truth.
She argues that Wordsworth's artist seeks to convey meaning yet has no faith in objectivity or the universal; Wordsworth's "Romantic" gives up on objective truth yet searches for an "elusive human essence" in whose existence the Romantic writer does not fully believe (56).
As we saw in the supplement Completing the Picture of Kant's Metaphysics of Judgment, the Second Analogy of Experience, if true, guarantees both the objectivity and the universal diachronic or temporally successive causal necessitation of objects of experience and all of their parts, under natural laws.
There is also the fact that Jews are disproportionately represented in the academy, and as scholars dedicated (in theory) to objectivity and a universal rationality, they may be bending over backward to avoid slipping into a tribal identification.
(I have no pets myself, ensuring objectivity).
Like his extrovertive experience, Stace's universal introvertive experience involves a blissful sense of sacred objectivity, and is paradoxical and possibly ineffable.
If The Golden Notebook has one unmistakable theme, it is the danger of uncoupling the personal from the universal, of seeing the subjective as inimical to – even undermining of – objectivity.
Universals in the primary sense as the basis of scientific objectivity are extra-mental.
While, however, few modern readers are likely to be favorably inclined towards the view that the Vedic texts are authorless, these commitments reflect often profound intuitions, elaborated by Kumārila and other Mīmāṃsakas, about the irreducibly linguistic character of thought, and about the reality of the kinds of universals that must be posited to make sense of the objectivity of language.
Nevertheless, the suggestion that gender matters, particularly as gender relates to one's ethical predispositions, calls into question the inherent "objectivity" of ethical theories, which are advanced in part because of their universal merit and application.
