subjectivism

From subjective +‎ -ism.

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subjectivism (countable and uncountable, plural subjectivisms)

1. (metaphysics) The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.
2. (epistemology) The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition.
   • 1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 25, in Metaphors We Live By:

     Subjectivism takes as its allies the emotions, intuitive insight, imagination, humaneness, art, and a “higher” truth.

3. (ethics) The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.

• objectivism

• relativism

• antisubjectivism