Ability to remove personal feelings or presuppositions in assessing learning or other areas.
In testing, the elimination of subjective bias by limiting choices to fixed alternatives.
a disinterested stance; a position taken without personal bias or prejudice (cf. subjectivity).
judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices
A quality in writing characterized by the absence of the author's opinion or feeling about the subject matter. Objectivity is an important factor in criticism. The novel s of Henry James and, to a certain extent, the poems of John Larkin demonstrate objectivity, and it is central to John Keats's concept of "negative capability." Critical and journalistic writing usually are or attempt to be objective. (Compare with Subjectivity.) (See also Journalism.)
See entry for Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Public, meaing to have common access to any available evidence. Some may claim that whatever is objective is also free of bias, though this view is not supported by either logic or experience.
the factual reality, independent from feelings, emotions, bias, prejudice, and subjectivity.
A method of evaluating knowledge based on whether it conforms to reality or not.
Has various meanings in philosophy, and is surely one of the most important philosophical problems, since it concerns the epistemological status of knowledge, the problem of an objective reality and the question of our subjective relationship to others objects in the world.
Relying predominantly on observations of the properties and composition of an object itself when evaluating the object. This is not to say that the person evaluating the object will have no presuppositions or influenced perspective when considering the object. Yet relatively speaking, evaluating an object based on observations of the object itself rather than one's own feelings or experience with the object is more reliable than a subjective approach.
Objectivity, as a method of philosophy, is dependent upon the presupposition distinguishing references in the field of epistemology regarding the ontological status of a possible objective reality, and the state of being objective in regard to references towards whatever is considered as objective reality. In other words, what is real and how do we know what we infer about the real is true? Inherent to the distinction is a paradoxical notion that despite the various meanings or definitions assigned to the concept by various disciplines, schools of thought, or individual philosophers, ultimately there is a body of knowledge referred to which is considered representative of a single reality.
Objectivity is frequently held to be essential to journalistic professionalism (particularly in the United States); however, there is some disagreement about what the concept consists of. In Europe and other places, advocacy journalism is considered as a legitimate sort of professional journalism.