Subjective may refer to:
- Subjectivity, a subject's personal perspective, feelings, beliefs, desires or discovery, as opposed to those made from an independent, objective, point of view
- Subjective experience, the subjective quality of conscious experience
- Subjectivism, a philosophical tenet that accords primacy to subjective experience as fundamental of all measure and law
- Subjective case, grammatical case for a noun
- Subject (philosophy), a being which has subjective experiences or a relationship with another entity
- Subjective theory of value, an economic theory of value
- A school of bayesian probability stating that the state of knowledge corresponds to personal belief
Famous quotes containing the word subjective:
“The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want. You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
“every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.”
—Thomas Nagel (b. 1938)