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there is no view from nowhere, only views from somewhere.
means the idea that all knowledge and truth are shaped by the particular vantage point of whoever is perceiving them.
from crystallized by nietzsche in the late 1800s, who argued that facts don't exist, only interpretations, each one anchored to a body, a history, a set of interests.
not relativismnietzsche insisted some perspectives see more than others.
predates nietzscheleibniz used the idea of viewpoints centuries earlier.
science friendlyphilosophers use it to explain why models are useful fictions.
eye metaphornietzsche literally compared truth to seeing through many eyes.
for instance
ortega y gasset — spanish philosopher built a whole 1914 doctrine on point of view.
rashomon — 1950 kurosawa film, one crime, four irreconcilable eyewitness truths.