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131Objective idealism — the doctrine that reality or knowledge is founded on ideas (mental experience). Depending on the specific ideal, idealism is usually juxtaposed with materialism or realism. • Objective idealism is an idealistic metaphysics that postulates that… …
132objective function — In linear programming, a statement that gives the aim of a decision in the form of an equation. For example, the objective function may be either to maximize the contribution or to minimize the costs, based on a relationship between the factors… …
