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Perspectivism — Wikipedia (en)

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Perspectivism (also called perspectivalism) is the epistemological principle that perception and knowledge are completely dependent on perspective. Perspectivism holds that no one has access to a God's-eye view of the world and that no perspective or interpretation is of equal truth or value. Rather than determining truth by correspondence, perspectivism generally determines truth through comparing and evaluating different perspectives. Perspectivism is sometimes regarded as an early form of epistemological pluralism, though occasionally includes treatment of value theory, moral psychology, and realist metaphysics. Early forms of perspectivism are found in the philosophies of Protagoras, Michel de Montaigne, and Gottfried Leibniz; however, perspectivism's first major development comes from Friedrich Nietzsche who was influenced by Gustav Teichmüller's prior use of the term. Nietzsche's perspectivism is a realist antimetaphysics rejecting both the correspondence theory of truth and the notion that truth-value always constitutes ultimate worth-value. Nietszsche believed that objective truth can be found through asymptotically studying the differences between perspectives, which contrasts Platonic notions that objective truth is completely independent from perspective. According to Alexander Nehamas, perspectivism is often misinterpreted as a form of relativism, whereby we acknowledge the true virtue of fully rejecting the 'Law of excluded middle' regarding a particular proposition. Lacewing Michael adds that although perspectivism doesn't accede to a God's-eye view, objectivity can still be approached—not reached—subjectively and asymptotically. Nehamas also describes how perspectivism does not prohibit holding interpretations to be definitively true but that truth cannot be objectively determined from outside our perspective. The idea that perspectivism is an absolutely true thesis is called weak perspectivism by Brian Lightbody. The basic principle that things are perceived differently from different perspectives or that perspectives determine one's limited and unprivileged access to knowledge has often been categorized as a rudimentary, uncontroversial form of perspectivism; furthermore, the basic practice of comparing contradictory perspectives to one another may belong in the same category (See also: Intersubjectivity), as may the entire philosophical problem of how true knowledge is to penetrate one's perspectival limitations.

Tema degli esploratori: storia e filosofia della scienza (deposito sistematico; ricerca «philosophy of science»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Perspectivism» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectivism
Wikidata Q167187: «philosophical principle that perspectives and epistemology are always linked» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167187
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectivism?action=history).
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