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Perspectivism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an approach to knowledge grounded in the assumption that there is no such thing as truth, no such thing as the unified subject, and that there are no facts, only interpretations.

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Perspectivism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠necessary to human life. There would be no life at all if not on the basis of perspective evaluations and appearances.

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Perspectivism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that there are no facts, only interpretations.

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Perspectivism (n.) holds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that there is only a seeing and a "knowing" from a perspective, and the more eyes we train on a thing, the more complete our "objectivity."

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Perspectivism (n.) holds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that the world has not one sense behind it but hundreds of senses, and may be interpreted differently.

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Perspectivism (n.) refuses ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the ludicrous immodesty of decreeing from one's own nook that only perspectives from that nook are legitimate.

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Perspectivism (n.) holds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that the world we can become conscious of is only a surface- and sign-world, made common and meaner; whatever becomes conscious becomes shallow, thin, relatively stupid, a herd signal.

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Perspectivism (n.) holds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that the world has no meaning behind it but countless meanings — it is our needs, our drives with their For and Against, that interpret it.

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Perspectivism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only a complex form of specificity: every center of force, not only man, construes the rest of the world from its own viewpoint, measuring it by its own force.

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Perspectivism (n.) holds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the world knowable only as variously interpretable — no meaning behind it, but countless meanings.