Objectivity is freedom from commitment-biased perception

Evidence

Objectivity may also be defined as freedom: the objective individual is bound by no commitments which could prejudice his perception, understanding, and evaluation of the given. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9594

Categorization

• XREF: Objectivity as freedom ties to the reader’s triangle of witnesses — the third-party auditor’s power rests on absence of local commitment. — connects to: Objectness is the state of being an object, distinct from objectivity; Objectification becomes bourgeois rationalization when objectivity remains unfree. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 267; Habitual perception filters through others’ prior thoughts and must be stripped away. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 342 (+2 more)