Perspectivism (also perspectivalism; German: Perspektivismus) is the epistemological principle that perception of and knowledge of something are always bound to the interpretive perspectives of those observing it. While perspectivism does not regard all perspectives and interpretations as being of equal truth or value, it holds that no one has access to an absolute view of the world cut off from perspective. Instead, all such viewing occurs from some point of view which in turn affects how things are perceived. Rather than attempt to determine truth by correspondence to things outside any perspective, perspectivism thus seeks to determine truth by comparison of perspectives to each other (See also: Intersubjectivity). Perspectivism may be regarded as an early form of epistemological plural