perspectivist
- noun
- /pərˈspɛktɪvɪst/
- Formal
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perspectivista
- The perspectivist argues that our understanding of truth varies based on individual experiences.
Examples
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As a perspectivist, she believes that different cultures offer unique insights into universal truths.
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But modern science is not perspectivist: some truth claims have the weight of scientific evidence behind them, and some do not.
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Nor does he accept a perspectivist response, which would understand different traditions of rationality as providing different perspectives on the one truth.
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The so-called perspectivist school of optics was in part based at the University of Padua.
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We might regard such self-reflexive writing of history as perspectivist or anamorphic since the position of the storyteller is necessarily figured into the account.
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Here we have the perspectivist critique made famous by Nietzsche's postmodern successors.
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Just as the perspectivist outlook comes from conditioning, so the cubist point of view can become ingrained and can lie beneath the surface of another perspective.
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The second part of the story reverses these tendencies; as the narrator enters school and a structured family, the cubist vision is replaced by a perspectivist point of view.
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Schacht's Making Sense of Nietzsche (1994) offers an appropriate correction to the perspectivist readings put forward by such scholars as Nehamas (see chs. 3-5 and 10).
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By contrast, the moment in which the adolescent Patrik approaches Fedja's house is dominated by perspectivist observation (Proza 301; Short Stories 186).
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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A person who thinks that truth and moral rules depend on the situation or viewpoint
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A person who believes truth and values depend on personal experience or perception
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Surface Forms
Morphology
perspectivist = perspective (semi-transparent) = perspective + ist
Agentive formation from 'perspective' + '-ist' is clear, but the specific philosophical meaning ('one who holds perspectivism') is specialized and not fully derivable by average learners.
Etymology
Perspectivist combines perspective ('viewpoint') with the ending -ist ('a person who believes or practices something'). So a perspectivist is someone who thinks truth or knowledge depends on each person's point of view.