(category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists of a set of element objects and the functions that operate on them.
“Any such lawful objectivation or object-formation just is knowledge or science, in the sense of being objectively thinkable.”
“Let us hope this publication will bring other PT to use the mode of objectivation to contribute other CPT techniques.”
“Thus methodological individualism can sometimes impede the sort of radical objectivation of social phenomena that the use of certain sociotheoretic models or tools requires.”
“However, as Bartky points out, objectifier and objectified can be one and the same person.”
“But I'm an equal opportunity objectifier – I'm just as happy to objectify men.”
“In the eyes of both these feminists and Kant, there is the powerful objectifier on the one hand, and on the other hand there exists his powerless victim.”
“Double effects of illusion and objectness, image and stuff, grace and crudity afflict comprehension.”
“Another device he used to emphasize the objectness of his paintings was to leave exposed the ragged edge of the canvas and the staples used to attach it to the stretcher.”
“In addition, they might also be seen as a hybrid of painting and bas-relief, so emphatic are their materiality and objectness, their presence as things in the world.”