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The application of perspectivism to epistemology—the study of knowledge itself. Epistemological Perspectivism argues that all knowledge is from a perspective, that what counts as knowledge depends on the knower's situation, that there is no knowledge from nowhere. This doesn't mean knowledge is impossible; it means knowledge is always situated, always partial, always from somewhere. Epistemological Perspectivism is the foundation of standpoint theory, of feminist epistemology, of every approach that takes the knower's position seriously. It's the recognition that where you stand shapes what you can see—and that seeing from somewhere is not a weakness but the only way to see at all.
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