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The spot you're standing on, rebranded as if it were a conclusion.
means The particular position or perspective from which you consider and judge something.
from A straightforward 19th-century English compound of 'stand' and 'point,' likely formed as a direct translation of the German 'Standpunkt,' which German philosophers used to mean a fixed position from which one views and reasons about things — so the literal ground-you're-on became, by analogy, the mental ground you argue from.
- not a fact
- it is a location, opinions just live there
- office speak
- lets you sound neutral while being biased
- etymology
- literally stand plus point, nothing fancier
- swap test
- replace with view, lose zero meaning