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objective 1. existing independently of perception or an individual's conceptions 2. Med (of disease symptoms) perceptible to persons other than the individual affected 3. Optics a. the lens or combination of lenses nearest to the object in an optical instrument b. the lens or combination of lenses forming the image in a camera or projector objective [äb′jek·tiv] (optics) The first lens, lens system, or mirror through which light passes or from which it is reflected in an optical system; many scientists exclude mirrors from the definition. Also known as object glass. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| However immense the tragedy of the modern world and however dismaying the war against the Word of God, he persevered in his belief that it is "the spiritual in man which battles against the final objectivization of human existence, the definite objectivization which issues in death for man by submerging him finally in the death-dealing stream of time. In his book The Case Against Pornography, David Holbrook argues that pornography is connected with the same processes of objectivization that are essential to the Galilean-Newtonian-Cartesian tradition that lower nature and man "to the status of dead objects". Specifically, the WHO's system defines disability as the objectivization of impairment in the form of composite activities and behaviors that are generally recognized as essential components of daily life. |
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