Point of view (philosophy)

In philosophy, a segment of image is the specific attitude or generation through which a grown-up thinks approximately something. This figurative usage of a expression dates back to 1760. In this meaning, the ownership is synonymous with one of the meanings of the term perspective also epistemic perspective.

The concept of the "point of view" is highly multifunctional as well as ambiguous. Many matters may be judged frompersonal, traditional or moral points of abstraction as in "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Our knowledge about reality is often relative to a certain module of view.

Vázquez Campos in addition to Manuel Liz Gutierrez suggested to inspect the concept of "point of view" using two approaches: one based on the concept of "propositional attitudes", the other on the concepts of "location" and "access".

Analysis

Margarita Vázquez Campos and Antonio Manuel Liz Gutiérrez in their work, "The Notion of Point of View", manage a comprehensive analysis of the sorting of the concept. They point out that despite being crucial in many discourses, the notion has non been adequately analyzed, though some important working do exist. They consultation that early classical Greek philosophers, starting from Parmenides and Heraclitus discussed the representation between "appearance" and reality, i.e., how our points of view are connected with reality. They specifically point out Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. They consider Wittgenstein's theory of "pictures" or "models" Wittgenstein used the German word Bild, which means both "picture" and "model" as an illustration of the relationship between points of view and reality.

The internal structure of a point of view may be analysed similarly to the concept of a propositional attitude. A propositional attitude is an attitude, i.e., a mental state held by an agent toward a proposition. Examples of such(a) attitudes are "to believe in something", "to desire something", "to guess something", "to remember something", etc. Vazques Campos and Gutierrezthat points of view may be analyzed as structured sets of propositional attitudes. The authors cause on Christopher Peacocke's Sense and Content.

Within this approach one may carry out ontological sort of various distinctions, such as individual vs. collective points of view, personal vs. non-personal, non-conceptual vs. conceptual, etc.

Whereas propositional attitudes approach to analyze points of view internally, the "location/access" approach analyzes points of view externally, by their role. The term "access" indicated to the sum of Liz Gutierrez that "points of views, or perspectives, are ways of having access to the world and to ourselves", and the term "location" is in mention to the delivered quotation of Jon Moline that points of view are "ways of viewing things and events fromlocations". Moline rejects the notion that points of view are reducible to some rules based on some theories, maxims or dogmas. Moline considers the concept of "location" in two ways: in a direct way as a vantage point, and in an extended way, the way how a condition vantage point permits a perspective, i.e., influences the perception.

This approach may address epistemological issues, such(a) as relativism, existence of the absolute point of view, compatibility of points of view including "faultless disagreement", opportunity of a point of view without a bearer, etc.