OBJECTIVITY

Objectivity

Objectivity in science is a value that informs how science is practiced and how scientific truths are created. It is the idea that scientists, in attempting to uncover truths about the natural world, must aspire to eliminate personal biases, a priori commitments, emotional involvement, etc. Objectivity is often attributed to the property of scientific measurement, as the accuracy of a measurement can be tested independent from the individual scientist who first reports it. It is thus intimately related to the aim of testability and reproducibility. To be properly considered objective, the results of measurement must be communicated from person to person, and then ...

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objectivity

Noun

  1. The state of being objective, just, unbiased and not influenced by emotions or personal prejudices
  2. The world as it really is; reality
  3. That which one understands, often, as intellectually, of all and everything, of what is sensed as felt, thereof
  4. That which is perceived to be true to understanding
  5. The object of understanding


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