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The philosophical view that all knowledge, all truth, all reality is necessarily perspectival—seen from somewhere, by someone, at some time, for some purpose. Perspectivism denies the possibility of a view from nowhere, an objective perspective that captures things as they really are independent of any observer. Instead, it embraces the multiplicity of perspectives as not a problem to overcome but a condition to accept. Perspectivism doesn't say there is no truth; it says truth is always truth-for, truth-from, truth-within. It's the philosophy of humility, of multiplicity, of the recognition that your perspective is one among many—not the only one, not the best one, just one.
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