Of course, such perspectival shifts could be deluded. From Wordnik.com. [William James, part 6: Mystical states] Reference
Albrecht Dürer's demonstration of perspectival composition. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
You just want to believe in a "perspectival view of reality.". From Wordnik.com. [Josh Mull: The Fundamentals of Radical, Transnational Counterinsurgency] Reference
Here is an alternate way of making out the argument from perspectival variation. From Wordnik.com. [Sense-Data] Reference
Albrecht Dürer's demonstration of perspectival composition, redrawn by Amelia Amelia. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
In the phenomenon of perspectival variation, the thing we are directly aware of changes. From Wordnik.com. [Sense-Data] Reference
Leibniz's conception of such a perspectival universe has, however, a distinctively Platonist origin. From Wordnik.com. [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] Reference
Or, to put it in the terms of the feminists philosophers of science, being a laughingstock is perspectival. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Liberty University De-Recognizes Democratic Club:] Reference
It's just the next logical stage in their development considering the perspectival point of their trajectory. From Wordnik.com. [I hate Blogger.] Reference
The two shots -- featuring a rhythmically chanting crowd in a long, perspectival column -- are practically the same. From Wordnik.com. [Robbing Peter to Pay Peter] Reference
Berkovitz and Hemmo (2006) have also put forward a perspectival (or relational) version of the modal interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics] Reference
It is also a figure favored for perspectival explorations by such artists as Piero della Francesca and Paolo Uccello. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Part of the reason it makes sense is that COIN is congruent with our culture's bias toward a perspectival view of reality. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Mull: The Fundamentals of Radical, Transnational Counterinsurgency] Reference
In the phenomenon of perspectival variation, our sensory experience changes, but the real, external object does not change. From Wordnik.com. [Sense-Data] Reference
Everyone so far is arguing from a perspectival mindset- there is no magic or myth rearing its head among the above comments. From Wordnik.com. [Bad News for Herbal Medicine? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Will a perspectival or relational extension (Bene and Dieks, 2002, Berkovitz and Hemmo, 2006) be able to solve these problems?. From Wordnik.com. [Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics] Reference
The self might be taken as the perspectival point from which the world of objects is present to experience (Wittgenstein 1921). From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
These meta-reflections inform relativist (perspectival or pluralist) and skeptical themes in the inner chapters of the Zhuangzi. From Wordnik.com. [Taoism] Reference
Manifest as a chessboard or perspectival velo, the grid was already an ancient mnemonic strategy at the conception of the studioli. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Thesis 5 is slightly obscure, but it seems to describe the relative or perspectival nature of relations of similarity and difference. From Wordnik.com. [School of Names] Reference
In the definitional texts, the Laozi and the Zhuangzi, the epistemic grounds are arguably more skeptical and perspectival than dogmatic. From Wordnik.com. [Taoism] Reference
Even if one believes that the truth is relative, constructed, malleable, perspectival, or performative, a scholar is dutibound to say so. From Wordnik.com. [John Seery: Harvard, Say It Ain't So!] Reference
Closely related to perspectival internalism is a somewhat broader thesis according to which all justifiers are mental states of cognizers. From Wordnik.com. [Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification] Reference
The mistake is understandable, since drawing no distinctions at all might seem to be a way of circumventing the perspectival nature of distinctions. From Wordnik.com. [School of Names] Reference
The notion of objective reality can have no other content for Gadamer than this openness that the very perspectival nature of our understanding provides. From Wordnik.com. [Hermeneutics] Reference
One problem is that whenever one engages in perception, and belief based on perceptual reports, one can never overcome the inherently perspectival situation. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
The perspectival structure of consciousness is one aspect of its overall phenomenal organization, but it is important enough to merit discussion in its own right. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
Defenders of sense data have argued, among other things, that sense data are required to explain such phenomena as perspectival variation, illusion, and hallucination. From Wordnik.com. [Sense-Data] Reference
In the present article, I distinguish the argument from perspectival variation from the argument from illusion proper; illusions will be discussed in the following section. From Wordnik.com. [Sense-Data] Reference
Bene, G. and Dieks, D. (2002), “A perspectival version of the modal interpretation of quantum mechanics and the origin of macroscopic behavior”, Foundations of Physics 32. From Wordnik.com. [Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics] Reference
If it were parallel to theses 1 and 5, we might expect it to present a perspectival claim, such as that heaven and earth are in one respect one body and in another respect many. From Wordnik.com. [School of Names] Reference
This, would be to the perspectival detriment of all in the country. From Wordnik.com. [Asian] Reference
It requires the existence of a perspectival infrastructure that enables its realisation. From Wordnik.com. [Asian] Reference
"My book is putting perspectival questions back into the ontology, into our picture of the way the world is," says Hare. From Wordnik.com. [The Cherry Creek News] Reference
What I see is the attempt to incorporate the human imagination, as opposed to pushing it beyond current perspectival boundaries. From Wordnik.com. [Asian] Reference
Similarly, the rear wall is emphatically flat and blank, precluding any perspectival lines and terminating the recession of space. From Wordnik.com. [Quazen] Reference
Hence, after 2000 years of perspectival stability, I won't be surprised if China views difference as 'chaotic' or 'cannot be controlled'. From Wordnik.com. [Asian] Reference
You'll be able to gauge something about the perspectival proclivities of a person by her or his readiness / willingness to adopt this bite. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress] Reference
There's one little place in the painting where I think that Fabritius worried that maybe he wasn't pulling off his perspectival cleverness. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
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