perspectivalization

noun

The act of causing to become perspectival.

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Meanings

nounperspectivalization (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe act of causing to become perspectival.

    There is an analogy between how profiling and perspectivalization work and the way the original Minskyan frames work.

    2011, Claudia Maienborn • Klaus von Heusinger • Paul Portner, Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning - Volume 1, De Gruyter Mouton Publishing, page 682
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    One of the results of perspectivalization is the circumstantial and contextual suspension of a literal ontological attitude.

    2016, Marc Lamparello, Reason and Counterpoint, Wipf & Stock Publishing - Eugene & Oregon, page 410

    Much of what follows is about changed perspectives, or what my mentor, Sherman Paul, terms perspectivalization, a primary postmodern virtue.

    1996, Michael Joyce, Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, Ann Arbor - The Michigan University Press, page 1

Origin

From perspectival + -ization.

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