perspective
Enable an agent to identify, compare and responsibly use a perspective by recording whose standpoint it expresses, what it makes salient and how it shapes interpretation and action.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Enable an agent to identify, compare and responsibly use a perspective by recording whose standpoint it expresses, what it makes salient and how it shapes interpretation and action.
A perspective is a standpoint from which an agent perceives, interprets or evaluates a subject, shaped by the agent's position, experience, assumptions and purposes.
It can be Elicit a perspective through subject-specific questions about attention, assumptions and priorities.; Reconstruct a perspective from identified expressions while marking inferential gaps.; Compare perspectives on a shared case and locate the source of disagreement.; Explore how a situation appears under another perspective without claiming endorsement or lived experience.; Identify overlooked considerations and seek relevant counterexamples or additional standpoints.; Revise or limit use of a perspective when its holder corrects the attribution or its application conditions change..
Distinguishing features
Unlike a single opinion, a perspective identifies a way of selecting or interpreting features that can organise several judgments about a subject.
Unlike a physical viewing position, the intended sense includes interpretive relevance or evaluation; a location alone does not establish it.
Unlike a belief, a perspective need not assert one proposition as true and may be adopted provisionally to explore a situation.
Unlike a comprehensive worldview, a perspective may apply only to one task, relationship or subject.
Unlike a bias diagnosis, identifying a perspective does not by itself establish that its judgments are systematically mistaken.
Scope
+ The subject, situation and questions toward which a perspective is directed
+ The individual, collective or explicitly constructed standpoint associated with it
+ Selections of relevant features, interpretive assumptions and evaluative priorities
+ Evidence for attributing a perspective and limits on that attribution
+ Relationships between perspectives, including disagreement, overlap and change
- Geometric projection and techniques for depicting depth
- The complete belief system, personality or identity of a perspective holder
- The truth of every proposition considered from a perspective
- Narrative voice and focalisation as formal properties of a literary work
- Individual sensory mechanisms and perceptual disorders
- Formal decision procedures and actions resulting from a perspective
Characteristics
- Subject and application context
- Referenced subject, situation, task and applicable time Perspectives can only be compared meaningfully when their subjects and contexts are aligned.
- Standpoint bearer
- Individual, named collective, institutional role or constructed observer; attribution may be unknown Identifies whose standpoint is represented without assuming that a role or group has one uniform perspective.
- Attribution basis
- Self-described, explicitly endorsed, expressed in a specified record, analyst-inferred or hypothetical Separates what a holder has expressed from an agent's reconstruction.
- Salience pattern
- Subject features foregrounded, backgrounded or explicitly excluded, with contextual reasons Captures what the perspective directs attention toward and what its use may overlook.
- Interpretive commitments
- Linked assumptions, categories, comparisons and causal interpretations; explicit or inferred Makes the interpretive work of the perspective inspectable.
- Evaluative priorities
- Relevant values, interests and criteria; ordering recorded only when supported Helps explain different judgments despite agreement about descriptive evidence.
- Adoption status
- Endorsed, provisionally entertained, attributed, rejected, superseded or unknown, relative to a specified actor Prevents exploration of a perspective from being mistaken for endorsement.
- Access conditions
- Information, experiences and practical positions available or unavailable to the standpoint bearer Distinguishes differences in access from differences in interpretation.
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 6 bundles · 11 layers · 16 findings · 26 questions.
Meaning and instance Establish which sense of perspective is intended and what qualifies as an instance.
The registry has no definition, and the name can refer to substantially different things.
Sense and boundary
Record the adopted meaning and its distinction from neighbouring senses.
Adopted sense
Record a working definition with its proponent or source and any competing definitions relevant to the use case.
- Does perspective here mean an interpretive standpoint, a spatial view, a representational technique or another identified sense? definition
- Who uses the adopted definition, and which competing definition would change what this model includes? provenance
Instance recognition
Determine whether a candidate expresses a perspective rather than merely a statement or position.
Organising standpoint
Record the subject and the pattern of attention or interpretation that supports treating the candidate as a perspective.
- What subject does this perspective address, and what makes it a way of approaching that subject rather than one isolated opinion? boundary
- Which examples and counterexamples would establish the instance boundary under the adopted definition? definition
Situated holder Connect the perspective to a bearer and the conditions from which the subject is encountered.
A perspective attributed without a bearer or context can conceal who is being represented and on what basis.
Bearer and attribution
Distinguish expressed, inferred and constructed perspectives.
Attribution warrant
Record whose perspective this is said to be and the evidence supporting that attribution.
- Who expressed or endorsed this perspective, or who constructed it as a hypothetical standpoint? provenance
- If it is attributed to a collective, what supports that scope and what internal disagreement is documented? boundary
Position and access
Describe relevant access, involvement and constraints without inferring a perspective directly from identity.
Situational access
Record how the bearer's participation, information and experience bear on this particular perspective.
- What information, experience or practical involvement does the bearer have concerning this subject? provenance
- Which claimed links between the bearer's position and their interpretation are evidenced, and which remain hypotheses? boundary
Attention and interpretation Make explicit how the perspective selects and gives meaning to features of its subject.
Recording a holder's conclusion alone loses the structure that makes it a perspective.
Foreground and background
Capture what receives attention and what falls outside the immediate frame.
Salience selection
Record foregrounded considerations and distinguish deliberate exclusions from unexamined omissions.
- Which features does this perspective repeatedly treat as central, and in which concrete examples? measurement
- Which considerations are explicitly excluded, merely unmentioned or demonstrably unavailable to the bearer? boundary
Interpretive frame
Describe the assumptions and categories through which selected features acquire meaning.
Meaning-making commitments
Record how the perspective categorises events and links observations to interpretations.
- What assumptions, analogies or categories connect the observations to the interpretation offered? definition
- What contrasting interpretation of the same observation would expose a commitment specific to this perspective? boundary
Judgment and comparison Explain evaluative differences and compare perspectives without treating all claims as equally supported.
Perspective differences may concern facts, meanings, priorities or scope and require different responses.
Evaluative criteria
Identify what counts as desirable, important or acceptable from this standpoint.
Priority structure
Record evaluative criteria and supported trade-offs while allowing perspectives that offer no explicit ranking.
- What does this perspective treat as success, harm or an acceptable outcome for the subject at hand? definition
- Which expressed choices or explanations support any claimed ordering among its priorities? provenance
Aligned comparison
Compare perspectives using a shared subject, context and body of evidence.
Disagreement location
Locate differences in information, attention, interpretation or evaluation and identify what could resolve them.
- When both perspectives address the same case, where do their descriptions, interpretations or evaluations diverge? measurement
- Which differences could be tested with further evidence, and which require clarification or negotiation of meanings and priorities? action
Adoption and revision Govern how an agent explores, applies and updates a perspective.
Using a perspective requires distinguishing simulation from endorsement and recognising when attribution or applicability has changed.
Perspective taking
Specify what it means to reason provisionally from this standpoint.
Bounded adoption
Record the purpose, assumptions and limits of adopting the perspective for an exercise or decision.
- For what task is the agent adopting this perspective, and which assumptions must be held provisionally to do so? action
- How will the output distinguish the bearer's documented views from the agent's extrapolation? provenance
Change and correction
Track changes in the perspective separately from corrections to its representation.
Revision trigger
Record evidence that calls for updating the attribution, limiting applicability or recognising a changed standpoint.
- Does new evidence show that the bearer changed perspective, that the context changed or that the original attribution was mistaken? boundary
- What correction, qualification or suspension of use should follow, and which earlier interpretations are affected? action
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
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- No sense is recorded; this answer provisionally interprets perspective as an agent's standpoint. The registry's intended sense needs checking.
- The listed kinds overlap and do not constitute a standardized taxonomy.
- Philosophy, psychology and narrative studies operationalize perspective differently; perspective-taking performance does not measure a perspective itself.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of perspective this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Kinds and varieties
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- Perceptual perspective
- Conceptual or interpretive perspective
- Evaluative perspective
- First-person perspective
- Third-person perspective
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of perspective this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
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- Comparing stakeholders' interpretations and priorities in decisions.
- Examining how theoretical assumptions shape explanations and evidence.
- Studying how people represent another person's visual access, knowledge or beliefs.
- Interpreting how a narrator's position shapes an account.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of perspective this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Typical measurements
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- Accuracy on a specified perspective-taking task - 0-100; task-dependent and not a universal measure of perspective - percent correct
- Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of perspective this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
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- Treating one situated interpretation as exhaustive or universally shared.
- Projecting one's own knowledge or preferences onto another person.
- Inferring a person's perspective solely from group membership.
- Confusing understanding a perspective with endorsing it.
- Assuming that different perspectives are equally supported by evidence.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of perspective this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
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- belief - A belief concerns what an agent accepts as true; a perspective organizes how a subject is approached and can encompass many beliefs.
- attitude - An attitude is an evaluative orientation toward something; a perspective can concern perception or interpretation without a definite evaluation.
- perspective-taking - Perspective-taking is the activity of representing another standpoint; a perspective is the standpoint represented.
- worldview - A worldview concerns a broad orientation toward reality and life; a perspective may be limited to one subject or situation.
- pictorial perspective - Pictorial perspective concerns representing spatial depth on a surface; the sense described here concerns an agent's standpoint.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of perspective this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Does the registry intend perspective as an interpretive standpoint, or does its source entry indicate a spatial, visual or other specialised sense?
- Which disciplinary definitions and their proponents should be represented, and where do their criteria for an instance conflict?
- What evidence is sufficient to attribute a shared perspective to a collective without erasing disagreement among its members?
- Which operationalisations can distinguish perspective differences from differences in information, vocabulary or isolated opinion in the intended applications?
- What criteria should distinguish a changed perspective from a context-specific expression of the same perspective?