Literary notes about Objective (AI summary)
In literature the term “objective” wears many hats, functioning both as a grammatical marker and as a philosophical or narrative device. It appears in discussions of grammar to denote cases such as the indirect object or the object of an infinitive ([1], [2]), while in philosophical and aesthetic writings it is used to distinguish impersonal, external validity or certainty from personal belief and emotion ([3], [4]). Moreover, in historical narratives or military memoirs the word marks tangible goals or reference points, emphasizing clear, factual targets and positions ([5], [6], [7]). In this way, “objective” enriches language by bridging the concrete with the abstract and the precise with the perceptual ([8], [9]).
- The objective of service is often included under the head of the indirect object.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - [ Whom is the subject of the infinitive to be and is therefore in the objective case.]
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - Subjective sufficiency is termed conviction (for myself); objective sufficiency is termed certainty (for all).
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - What fills up the gaps in our minds is something not objective, not external.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - Butler was to advance by the James River, having Richmond and Petersburg as his objective.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - The objective point was Java, where an alliance was formed with the native princes and a cargo of pepper secured.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows - But the more I study the game, the more am I convinced that it would be wrong for us to penetrate farther into Georgia without an objective beyond.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - Its first condition is that the man must be looked at from a purely objective point of view; which is not so easy to do.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer - It is only of objective validity in regard to phenomena, because these are things which we regard as objects of our senses.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
