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objectivism
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noun
the propensity to focus on elements external to cognition, in contrast to a focus on thoughts or feelings; a philosophy holding that reality is only what one can objectively determine
1898Henryk SienkiewiczSo Runs the WorldIt was Emile Zola. A great talent, slow but powerful and a potent force, surprising objectivism if the question is about a sentiment, because it is equal to almost complete indifference, such an exceptional gift of seeing the entire soul of humanity and things that it approaches this naturalistic writer to mystics—all that gives him a very great and unusual originality.1961Ayn RandFor the New Intellectual...the name I have chosen for my philosophy is Objectivism.

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