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a point of awareness from which one can perceive. (PAB 2)
- that thing which an individual puts out remotely, to look through. A system of remote lookingness— we'll call it just remote viewpoint. That's a specialized kind of viewpoint. And the place from which the individual is himself looking, we'll call flatly a viewpoint. (2ACC 17A, 5312CM07)
- evaluation is the reactive mind's conception of viewpoint. The reactive mind does not perceive, it evaluates. To the analytical mind it may sometimes appear that the reactive mind has a viewpoint. The reactive mind does not have a viewpoint, it has an evaluation of viewpoint. Thus the viewpoint of the analytical mind is an actual point from which
one perceives. Perception is done by sight, sound, smell, tactile, etc. The reactive mind's 'viewpoint' is an opinion based on another opinion and upon a very small amount of observation, and that observation would be formed out of uncertainties. Thus the confusion of the word viewpoint itself. It can be a point from which one can be aware, which is its analytical definition, and it can be somebody's ideas on a certain subject which is the reactive definition. (COHA, pp. 208-209)