ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to determine how objectivity may be understood in terms of the constraints on a given practice. It determines the sense in which the author can claim that some constraints on a given practice are non-conventional. The chapter involves the application of this plausible understanding of non-conventional constraint to the understanding of objectivity. Wittgenstein's insights suggest that constraints on a practice can be thought of as either the normal conditions under which the practice is engaged in, or the propositions which are accepted as a precondition so as to enable the practice to be engaged in. The descriptions of constraints, however, like all other descriptions, can obviously be good or bad, accurate or inaccurate, in one language or in another, and so on. The Kantian version of objectivity, although self-consistent, seems to have a vulnerable point. This is evident from the perspective of holism advocated up to now.
