ABSTRACT
In ordinary Danish usage, the word Objekt, from the Latin objectum via the German Objekt, designates a thing, matter, or person that is subjected to the influence of an explicitly stated or implicitly understood action. In its philosophical usage the word is used to stand for the object that is thought, in opposition to the subject, or for the material object that is known, as opposed to the knowing subject.1 Objectivity is the state of being independent of a subject and can sometimes mean the state of being impartial.2
