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The view that scientific knowledge is always from some perspective—there is no "view from nowhere" that captures reality as it truly is. Every observation, theory, and datum is situated within a particular framework: the wavelength your instrument can detect, the species-specific sensory apparatus of the human, the cultural questions that seemed worth asking, the theoretical commitments that shape what counts as a finding. Scientific Perspectivism doesn't deny that we learn real things about reality—it insists that we learn them from specific angles, and that combining angles gives a richer picture than any single one. Truth isn't abandoned; it's understood as necessarily partial.
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