Jamal Awil

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Objectivity as freedom requires freedom from constraining commitments. [definitional]

Objectivity may also be defined as freedom: the objective individual is bound by no commitments which could prejudice his perception, understanding, and evaluation of the given.

DEFINE: Offers an alternative definition of objectivity equating it with freedom from and non-commitment to preconceptions that could bias perception and judgment.

Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simm…, loc. 9594