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  • Kind of pruning back Natural Law, which a perspectivist should appreciate.

    Max Stirner and the Problem of Compassion James Killus 2007

  • As a constructive philosopher, Chatton was not a system-builder, but a defender of certain parts of the more systematic philosophy of John Duns Scotus, and an advocate of perspectivist accounts of cognition.

    Walter Chatton Keele, Rondo 2007

  • Oddly, you're using an old "correspondence" theory of language, to write about the new "perspectivist" theory of language, represented by cognitive metaphor, and intended to *replace* the correspondence theory.

    Metaphor IV: The Reckoning Chris 2004

  • Because no one can know everything, generalist knowledge is inevitably contextual, particularist, perspectivist, and idiocentric.

    languagehat.com: IDIOCENTRISM. 2004

  • Inspired by such ideas -- which are principally located in the second chapter of the Zhuangzi, entitled ˜Discourse on Seeing all things as Equal™ (Qiwu lun) -- Western comparative philosophers during the past two decades have taken a considerable interest in Zhuangzi and have engaged in spirited debate about whether he can be classified as a skeptic, a relativist, or a perspectivist.

    Zhuangzi Roth, Harold 2001

  • And who are we to mistrust Axe, a "known commentator on the chemistry between guys and girls"? perspectivist wrote:

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • There's at least one former Senator who would argue differently. perspectivist wrote:

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

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