perspectival
- adjective
- /pərˈspɛk.tɪ.vəl/
- Formal
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perspectivista
- Art critiques are often perspectival, reflecting the viewer's personal tastes and interpretations.
- perspectival structure
- perspectival shift
I mean, I think it's highly perspectival with respect to your situation.
- I mean, I think it's highly perspectival with respect to your situation.
- But the our idea of beauty is perspectival.
- So and your sense of realness for perspectival knowing is not power.
- So perspective I'm going to a perspectival shift can be very powerful.
- And then once we get beings that plausibly have consciousness, you have perspectival and procedural right with us.
Examples
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The essence of the law is perspectival: it resides in what or whom it sees, from where it sees it.
Academic text (2017) -
But how are we to distinguish differences of horizon that are merely perspectival from those that involve prejudice or bias?
Academic text (1994) -
I mean, I think it's highly perspectival with respect to your situation.
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Yeah yeah, well, sexy is, is a perspectival term anyway and yeah, I'm going to stop there.
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Later on, however, he clarifies that such perspectival difference does not render a history wrong, though it is important.
Academic text (2001) -
All memories are first-person memories and are therefore subject to the same perspectival bias as all other kinds of enunciation.
Academic text (2000) -
Early modern notions of the past were in fact nowhere less perspectival than in the realm of artifacts, pictures, statues, and buildings.
Academic text (2005) -
This new paradigm understands all statements about reality to be historical, intentional, perspectival, partial, interpretive, and dialogic.
Academic text (2015) -
The poet creates first confusion and then harmony by drawing on the perspectival distortions that desire engenders, its "wicked and dissembling glass."
Academic text (1998) -
In a similar vein, hip historians spurned objectivity as mere illusion; hadn't Nietzsche shown that everything is perspectival?
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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5.9
Based on a person's feelings or opinions rather than facts
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7.0
About people's opinions or feelings
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8.1
Thinking that truth and moral rules depend on the situation or viewpoint
Saying a person's point of view shapes what they believe
Putting personal feelings and opinions before facts
How Subjective
Surface Forms
Morphology
perspectival = perspective (semi-transparent) = perspectiv + al
The word is clearly built from 'perspective' plus -al, but this abstract evaluative sense is specialized and not fully predictable for all learners.
Etymology
Perspectival comes from perspective, which means 'a way of seeing' and is related to words like spectator and inspect about looking. So, something that is perspectival depends on a particular person's or group's view or standards.