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  • adjective Of or pertaining to perspective

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perspective +‎ -al

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Examples

  • Thoreau's position might be described as perspectival realism, since he does not conclude that truth is relative but celebrates the diversity of the multifaceted reality that each of us knows in his own distinctive way.

    Henry David Thoreau Furtak, Rick Anthony 2008

  • The article is a hodgepodge of strained reason in which Applebaum tries to cobble together an analysis of German reenactments of the Civil War, a conflation of thematic political and perspectival individual ends in war generally and the Nazi's alleged obsession with Gone with the Wind.

    Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

  • The article is a hodgepodge of strained reason in which Applebaum tries to cobble together an analysis of German reenactments of the Civil War, a conflation of thematic political and perspectival individual ends in war generally and the Nazi's alleged obsession with Gone with the Wind.

    Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

  • The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • The article is a hodgepodge of strained reason in which Applebaum tries to cobble together an analysis of German reenactments of the Civil War, a conflation of thematic political and perspectival individual ends in war generally and the Nazi's alleged obsession with Gone with the Wind.

    Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

  • The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • “The designation ‘aperspectival,’ in consequence, expresses a process of liberation from the exclusive validity of perspectival and unperspectival, as well as pre-perspectival limitations.”

    February « 2009 « Sentence first 2009

  • The article is a hodgepodge of strained reason in which Applebaum tries to cobble together an analysis of German reenactments of the Civil War, a conflation of thematic political and perspectival individual ends in war generally and the Nazi's alleged obsession with Gone with the Wind.

    Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

  • “The designation ‘aperspectival,’ in consequence, expresses a process of liberation from the exclusive validity of perspectival and unperspectival, as well as pre-perspectival limitations.”

    How to use quotation marks 2009

  • You just want to believe in a "perspectival view of reality."

    Josh Mull: The Fundamentals of Radical, Transnational Counterinsurgency 2010

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