Characteristics of objectivity. Beyond this , it is worth remarking that Bloor’s social view of objectivity explains and accounts for objectivity. In contrast traditional views (including Popper’s) elaborate on, or at best define objectivity (intensively or extensively), but never account for or explain objectivity. For the autonomous, inde-pendent existence of objective knowledge is traditionally show to be necessary, without any explanation of what objectivity is, or how objective knowledge can emerge from subjective human knowledge. In contrast, the social view of objectivity nature is able to offer an account of the basis and nature of objectivity and objective knowledge