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What's the difference between perception and perspective
What's the difference between perception and perspective? Is there any similarity between those two words?
Jan 22, 2017 12:20 AM
Answers · 2
Ok , trying to keep it simple.
Perception means how you see a particular situation or event. How you perceive something.
Perspective is your opinion or point of view on a particular topic, situation or event. What do you think about something.
January 22, 2017
A perception is something that you perceive through your senses; in other words, something is there and you become aware of it.
A perspective has more to do with the position from which you perceive something. Your perspective could physical or intellectual.
Examples:
I climbed to the top of the hill, and from that perspective the town looked very small.
--- in this example, you could replace "perspective" with "vantage point"
Well, I'm a lawyer, and from my perspective the most important thing is to establish the facts.
--- in this example, you could replace "perspective" with "point of view", or you could replace the entire phrase "from my perspective" with "to me" or "as far as I'm concerned"
January 22, 2017
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