objective reality

collocation in English

meaningsofobjectiveandreality

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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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reality
noun
uk
/riˈæl.ə.ti/
us
/riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined ...
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(Definition ofobjectiveandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofobjective reality

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Theobjectiverealityin which an individual lives and acts is not "purely natural" but includes products of former human social activity.
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At the same time, the language conceals its referentialmetaphorical character, pretending that these concepts refer to anobjectivereality.
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The internal pole is conceived of as belief, that is personal, and the external pole is conceived of as truth,objectivereality, that is universal.
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This is how the subjective experience of the perceived world turns into an illusion ofobjectivereality.
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First,objectiverealitysets some limits on the car rier's license to interpret.
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The sources from which my norms and values are derived are myself, other people, andobjectivereality(whatever that means).
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Its commitment is to a plain style that purports to provide access toobjectivereality.
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The prototype theory understands language not as anobjectivereality, rather as a mental category to which all its dialectal varieties are ascribed.
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Assumptions about such a consistent 'goodness of fit' betweenobjectiverealityand citizens' economic perceptions may not be tenable in new market economies, however.
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Theobjectiverealityof shapes is anchored largely by their nonperceptual causal roles.
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Nevertheless, everyday experience makes us believe that we observe anobjectiverealitythat is independent of our presence and observation.
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There are, however, many other interpretations of loneliness and no single approach to measurement can establish itsobjectivereality.
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Nevertheless, in what sense can a synthetic judgment be a necessary judgment and lackobjectivereality?
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Theobjectiverealityfor small-probability outcomes requires a long time of observation when the outcome timescale is not small.
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The human brain is not only capable of perceiving what is calledobjectivereality; it can also create new reality.
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Thus, to the extent that economic perceptions deviate fromobjectivereality, our estimates of the 'true' economic effects may be biased.
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Through decentered prose, artists questioned the existence ofobjectiverealityand in so doing implicitly challenged the cold war's moral justification even as they accepted the necessity of its existence.
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The issue here is how a whole community can be shown to be in error when theobjectiverealityagainst which the error is judged is mere community consensus.
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One needs to relate the concept thought in a synthetic judgment to an intuition in order to justify theobjectiverealityof the conceptual connection thought in it.
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