Perspective

A way of regarding situations, events, facts, etc., and judging their relative importance - especially from one particular standpoint;

viewing something, e.g., an issue, from a particular point-of-view, the proportion in which parts of a subject are viewed in the mind;

a measured or objective assessment of a situation, by making a concerted attempt to give all aspects of the situation their comparative importance.

(see also: argument, soundness, critical thinking, openminded scepticism, Framing, weasel words, problem of adequacy, persuasion/persuasiveness, fallacy, reasoning, conclusion, claim, evidence, (hidden) assumptions, establish, support, ground, justification, controversies)

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