ABSTRACT
In his In Defence of Objectivity, Andrew Collier (2003: 19) asserts that ‘the first and central use of the word “objectivity” is to refer to what is true independently of any subject judging it to be true’. Thus, for Andrew, the concepts of truth and objectivity are closely connected. What is true is what is objectively the case independent of our saying so. Conversely, what is objectively the case is what we can truthfully assert to be the case.
