objectivity (objektiviti)

[F. objectivité = Sp. objetividad = Pg. objectividade, The Greek philosophers alone found little want of a term precisely to expre the abstract notion of objectivity in its indeterminate universality, which they could apply, as they required it, in any determinate relation. Sir W. Hamilton (in Reid), Supplementary Di ertations, [note B, i. Preponderant objectivity seems characteristic of the earlier stages of our consciousne , and the subjective attitude does not become habitual till later in life. H. Sidgwick , Methods of Ethics, p. 41. E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 198. Intense objectivity of regards, as in a race or an engro ing operation, is not, strictly speaking, unconsciousne , but it is the maximum of energy with the minimum of consciousne . A. Bain , Mind, XII. 578.