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A philosophical framework holding that formal systems are always from a perspective—that what a formalism reveals depends on the perspective from which it is developed and applied. Different logical systems reveal different aspects of reasoning; different programming paradigms reveal different aspects of computation; different formal frameworks make different phenomena visible. Perspectivism demands that formal scientists be explicit about their frameworks, recognizing that the formalisms they choose shape what they can express.
Example: "Her perspectivism of the formal sciences meant she saw functional programming, object-oriented programming, and logic programming not as competing for the one true way to compute, but as different perspectives on computation—each suited to different problems."
by Dumu The Void March 20, 2026
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