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Where you stand decides what you swear is true.
means A particular position or perspective from which something is observed, considered, or judged — either literally where you're standing or how you see an issue.
from A transparent compound of "view" plus "point," stitched together in English. "View" came through Old French from Latin "videre," to see; "point" likewise traces to Latin "punctum," a pricked mark or spot. So a viewpoint is, almost literally, the "seeing-spot" — the place you plant yourself to look. It began as a physical thing, a vantage on a hill, before drifting into the figurative sense of a mental stance, the way "standpoint" did around the same era.
- physical origin
- Originally meant a literal spot for viewing scenery
- blind spots
- Every viewpoint hides what stands behind it
- perspective shift
- Same fact, two viewpoints, two opposite stories
- camera term
- Filmmakers stage shots from chosen viewpoints to manipulate emotion
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