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Objectivity means many things. Some philosophers speak of an objective reality behind perceptible things, as that which in some sense causes appearances. They hold that the objective lies beyond human knowledge, beyond all experience but is responsible for it. When questions are raised as to the actual existence of an external world, independent of all knowers, it is this idea of objectivity that intrudes itself.
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Margenau, H., Park, J.L. (1967). Objectivity in Quantum Mechanics. In: Bunge, M. (eds) Delaware Seminar in the Foundations of Physics. Studies in the Foundations Methodology and Philosophy of Science, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86102-4_10
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