the.com/point of view

means The particular position — physical or mental — from which someone perceives, judges, or presents something, shaping what gets seen and what doesn't.

from A straightforward compound: 'point' (a specific spot, from Latin punctum, a prick or dot) plus 'view' (a seeing or survey, from Old French veue, 'that which is seen'). Together they literally mean the spot from which one sees — a physical vantage point first, before the phrase drifted, by the 1700s, into the metaphorical sense of a mental standpoint or opinion. No hidden trick in the history; the sleight of hand came later, once people noticed that where you stand decides what you see.