Paul ricoeur 's Objectivity and Subjectivity in History 1. The incomplete objectivity in historical study: a. Judgment of importance: Choices made by historian in their process of investigations are based mainly on judgment of importance rather than empirically and objectively derived criteria, which natural scientists claimed to have used. Historian's judgments of importance (in Weber's words 'cultural significance )will not only affect historian's choice of topics andor problem of investigation, but will play essential parts in choice of data (i.e. historical documents or any other forms of historical artifact), in constructing causal sequences(i.e. narrative), in selecting contextual factors, against which the data and causal explanations are set against6 1. The incomplete objectivity in historical study:.. a. Judgment of importance: Choices made by historian in their process of investigations are based mainly on judgment of importance rather than empirically and objectively derived criteria, which natural scientists claimed to have used. Historian’s judgments of importance (in Weber’s words ‘cultural significance’) will not only affect historian’s choice of topics and/or problem of investigation, but will play essential parts in choice of data (i.e. historical documents or any other forms of historical artifact), in constructing causal sequences (i.e. narrative), in selecting contextual factors, against which the data and causal explanations are set against. Paul Ricoeur’s Objectivity and Subjectivity in History