[f. prec.: see -IST.] One who believes in or advocates subjectivism. Also attrib. = next.
1874. trans. Ueberweg’s Hist. Philos., II. 65. This interpretation, which would make of Spinoza a Subjectivist.
1885. F. E. Abbot, Sci. Theism, Introd. ii. 43. The subjectivist definition of knowledge. Ibid., 44. The utter indifference of subjectivists to their own innumerable self-contradictions.
1911. Encycl. Brit., VI. 850/2. The subjectivist principle that forms the starting point of Berkley.
Hence Subjectivistic a.
1886. Edersheim, Life Jesus, I. 208, note. True religion is ever objectivistic, sensuous subjectivistic.
1897. Pillsbury & Titchener, trans. Külpe’s Introd. Philos., 227. Subjectivistic ethics, following psychology, has taken two different forms, those of hedonism and eudæmonism.
