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subjective

adjective as in emotional; based on inner experience rather than fact

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Moreover, we don’t generally take these facts to be mere records of our subjective preferences or of cultural norms.

These algorithms may seem mathematical and objective, but Woolley says the system is “incredibly subjective,” with many human decisions behind how and why particular content gets recommended.

There is still almost no scientific understanding of how the “boops” of electrochemical pulses in the brain become the subjective experience of thinking, feeling, or remembering.

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However, judging the quality of writing is highly subjective.

Of course, measuring emotions is highly complex, and given how subjective and multifaceted they are, quantitative measurements will never entirely displace the qualitative element of evaluating and describing what we’re thinking and feeling.

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For one thing, the subjective/objective distinction is fundamental to Western notions of scholarship, and science itself.

The whole goal is to create an effective experience of fear, which is subjective.

Unless you can find good criticism, which is hard to do, because you get too subjective.

The subjective and unverifiable nature of pain is one of the most challenging aspects of managing it.

These results, of course, are subjective and totally unscientific.

They were not pretenders and quacks; they were sceptics who denied subjective truths, and labored for outward advantage.

He did not deny to ideas a subjective existence, but he did deny that they have an objective existence.

Let us put aside for a moment planetary and sidereal visions, which appear more subjective than objective.

So far as we can learn, the benefit was entirely in the subjective symptoms of the patient.

Mr. Melchers attacks whatever suits his particular mood, and his art is not suggestive of a subjective temperament.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to subjective, such as: abstract, biased, idiosyncratic, illusory, instinctive, and intuitive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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