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  2. Nomothetic and idiographic - Wikipedia

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    Theodore Millon stated that when spotting and diagnosing personality disorders, first clinicians start with the nomothetic perspective and look for various general scientific laws; then when they believe they have identified a disorder, they switch their view to the idiographic perspective to focus on the specific individual and his or her ...

  3. Perspective-taking - Wikipedia

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    Perspective-taking takes place when an individual views a situation from another's point-of-view. [1] [13] Perspective-taking has been defined along two dimensions: perceptual and conceptual. [14] Perceptual perspective-taking is the ability to understand how another person experiences things through their senses (i.e. visually or auditorily). [14]

  4. Worldview - Wikipedia

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    Dilthey characterized worldviews as providing a perspective on life that encompasses the cognitive, evaluative, and volitional aspects of human experience. Although worldviews have always been expressed in literature and religion, philosophers have attempted to give them conceptual definition in their metaphysical systems.

  5. Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The root of the words subjectivity and objectivity are subject and object, philosophical terms that mean, respectively, an observer and a thing being observed.The word subjectivity comes from subject in a philosophical sense, meaning an individual who possesses unique conscious experiences, such as perspectives, feelings, beliefs, and desires, [1] [3] or who (consciously) acts upon or wields ...

  6. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    In (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) – indicates a signpost to particular, unique, formerly living being. Such traditions often consider the soul to be not merely immortal, but innately aware of its true purpose of its former sentience in eternity within some heavenly plan. (But see also Ghost)

  7. Perspectivism - Wikipedia

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    Perspectivism (German: Perspektivismus; also called perspectivalism) is the epistemological principle that perception of and knowledge of something are always bound to the interpretive perspectives of those observing it.

  8. Point of view (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Moline rejects the notion that points of view are reducible to some rules based on some theories, maxims or dogmas. Moline considers the concept of "location" in two ways: in a direct way as a vantage point, and in an extended way, the way how a given vantage point provides a perspective, i.e., influences the perception. [9]

  9. Life stance - Wikipedia

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    Harry Stopes-Roe, who fought for the term's acceptance by the Humanist movement, defined "life stance" as follows: "Life stance" - The style and content of an individual's or a community's relationship with that which is of ultimate importance; the presuppositions and commitments of this, and the consequences for living which flow from it.