objective meaning

collocation in English

meaningsofobjectiveandmeaning

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objective
adjective
uk
/əbˈdʒek.tɪv/
us
/əbˈdʒek.tɪv/
based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefs ...
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meaning
noun
uk
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
us
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition ofobjectiveandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofobjective meaning

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Our social and cultural context is also the source in which we can find views of life and ideas ofobjectivemeaningof human life.
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In this section we used the termobjectivemeaningrather carelessly.
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Firstly, subjectivists tend to viewobjectivemeaningas a rival of subjective meaning.
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Temporal order is thus a primitive relation, theobjectivemeaningof which is presupposed by this analysis.
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Objectivemeaning, therefore, is not only ascribed to one's own life, or the life of another, but to all human lives.
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Furthermore, he could choose as his first-person meaning a combination of thirdperson meanings, or a combination of a third-person meaning and anobjectivemeaning.
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There are, however, different types of frameworks ofobjectivemeaning.
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Some authors claim that onlyobjectivemeaningis worth consideration when it comes to the meaning of life.
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There is third-person meaning, which is either functional or intrinsic, and there isobjectivemeaning, which also may be either functional or intrinsic.
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The assertion that human life has anobjectivemeaningis an assertion about the nature of reality.
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When, however, our view of life implies anobjectivemeaning, then the criterion of inspirational quality becomes a universal demand.
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However, in a great part of the literature on the ascription of meaning there is discussion aboutobjectivemeaning.
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Let us, for the sake of the argument, suppose that life is not endowed with anobjectivemeaning.
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As we have seen,objectivemeaningis a type of meaning different from first-person meaning that we give subjectively.
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The objective aspect makes clear that meaning is also determined and given by objective conditions, even by an idea ofobjectivemeaningtransmitted by a certain tradition.
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Schafer argues that function and meaning of sound depend on its context, that there is noobjectivemeaningof a sound.
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