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A philosophical framework holding that reality is always from a perspective—that what we take as real depends on the theoretical frameworks, conceptual commitments, cultural traditions, and standpoints from which we engage the world. Reality perspectivism rejects the idea of a perspective-free access to reality. The reality of a forest from a logger's perspective differs from a conservationist's; the reality of a historical event from the perspective of the powerful differs from the marginalized. Perspectivism doesn't make reality subjective; it recognizes that each perspective reveals genuine aspects of reality, and that no perspective exhausts what is real. It demands that we be reflective about the perspectives that shape our sense of reality and recognize that reality is always reality-from-a-perspective.
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