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Perspectivism
Philosophical principle that perspectives and epistemology are always linked
Perspectivism
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...
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