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A mental position from which things are viewed
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standpoint
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Word definitions for standpoint in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Standpoint \Stand"point`\ (-point`), n. [Cf. G. standpunkt.] A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. point of view; perspective
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Standpoint may refer to: Theories Standpoint theory , a postmodern method for analyzing inter-subjective discourses Standpoint feminism , an ideology that argues feminist social science should be practiced from the standpoint of women Perspective (cognitive) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES view sth from a ... perspective/standpoint ▪ It’s an issue that can be viewed from several perspectives. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE economic ▪ Yet it does produce a soft and, most important from an economic ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1829, from stand (v.) + point (n.). A loan-translation of German Standpunkt . Century Dictionary calls it "a word objected to by purists."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events" [syn: point of view , viewpoint , stand ]
Usage examples of standpoint.
During the meeting, I briefly addressed my colleagues, offering my views from a medical standpoint on the anthrax exposure so far.
The difference between Kant and Herbart in interpreting the process of apperception is an index of a radical difference in their pedagogical standpoints.
From a public health standpoint, then, measles is a disease of prime importance.
To be fearlessly outspoken in her opinions came easily to her, since she judged solely from the standpoint of her social position.
Self-change in nature is change in the quality of the standpoint of the percipient event.
Powell, yet relates especially to the method of reckoning from the constantly recognized but ever varying standpoint of prescriptorial culture.
From the standpoint of thermoregulation, the division of the brain into a cerebellum and a cerebrum with temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes is meaningless.
Her emancipation from dogma had been so gradual, so unconfused by external pressure, that from her present standpoint she could look back with calmness and justice on all the stages she had left behind.
From a scientific standpoint, that lent probability to her unformulated feeling being grounded in facts.
I found something very stimulating in the reflection that, rash though the expedition might be, and, viewed from whatever standpoint, undeniably perilous, it promised to bring me to that secret stronghold of deviltry where the sinister Hassan of Aleppo so successfully had concealed himself.
From a purely behavioristic standpoint, if the phobic reaction is gone, then the phobia is cured.
And from this standpoint Neo-Confucianism, in keeping with all other Confucian schools, was primarily concerned with the conduct and affairs of people in the here and now.
But the truthful historian of the capabilities of crabs, the duty of one who stands sponsor to some of the species and who has the hardihood to indite some of the manifestations of their intelligence, wit, and craft, must discard the prejudices of his race, abandon all flattering sense of superiority, forbear the smiles of patronage, and contemplate them from the standpoint of fellowship and sympathy.
I explained to you the principles condemnatory of craniotomy and abortion, viewing these chiefly from the standpoint of the ethical philosopher and the jurist.
The Eleatics had put forward a claim, and Hegel called a standpoint like that a thesis.