单词 | perspectivist |
释义 | perspectivistn.adj. A. n. 1. An artist who specializes in drawing in perspective; a student of the rules or principles of perspective. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > perspective > [noun] > artist scenographer1598 perspectivist1648 scenograph1842 1648 M. Prideaux & J. Prideaux Easy & Compend. Introd. Hist. 341 For Mathematiques, the Lives of 1. Arithmeticians. 2. Geometricians. 3. Perspectivists. 4. Astronomers. 5. Geographers. 6. Architectonists, or Builders. 7. And Musitians, will yeeld matter to worke upon. 1917 W. T. Sedgwick & H. W. Tyler Short Hist. Sci. xi. 234 Painters were even called for a time perspectivists—prospettivi. 1955 H. Read Icon & Idea 149 All the ancient texts and recorded observations that occupied the minds of these fifteenth-century perspectivists. 1999 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 4 Sept. r22 Woolley's architectural and travel drawings..reveal him to be as skilled in two dimensions as three, a perspectivist delighting in architectural and contextual nuance. 2. Philosophy. An advocate of or believer in perspectivism (perspectivism n. 1). ΚΠ 1934 Jrnl. Philos. 31 73 What the perspectivist should assert is that perception does not consist in the presentation of an appearance, but in the apprehension of an object from a standpoint. 1996 Commentary (Nexis) Aug. 106 Berkowitz has no difficulty refuting the fashionable view of Nietzsche as radical perspectivist. B. adj. Philosophy. Of, relating to, or characterized by perspectivism (perspectivism n. 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > of relativism or particularism probabilistic1864 relativist1865 probabilist1878 relativistic1880 perspectivist1915 contextualistic1936 1915 Mind 24 448 He says, for instance, in one place, that there is no pure willess subject of knowledge, only a perspectivist seeing or knowing. 1963 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 23 483 This perspectivist view of all knowledge of nature, according to Lovejoy, make the objectivity of events meaningless. 1996 J. Richardson Nietzsche's Syst. 14 The perspectivist reading of Nietzsche denies him not only a metaphysics but also (what we might call) any ‘posited values’, that is, values he proposes as true. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1648 |
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