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The pair of glasses you forgot you were wearing, prescribing reality to you.
means The overall lens of beliefs and assumptions through which a person interprets the world and everything that happens in it.
from A direct, deliberate translation of the German 'Weltanschauung' ('Welt' = world, 'Anschauung' = view or perception), a word philosophers coined in the late 1700s/early 1800s to describe one's fundamental way of perceiving and making sense of existence. It entered English in the 1800s as a loan-translation (a 'calque') and has carried its philosophical weight ever since.
- origin
- German Weltanschauung, philosophy's gift to everyone's group chat
- sneaky trait
- feels like observation, is actually interpretation
- upgrade path
- changes only when reality gets rude enough
- blind spot
- invisible to the person who holds it