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Mr. Tom Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

I don't want to lose perspective...

Hi

Could you please tell me what the writer means here by "perspective"?


I don't want to lose perspective on our disagreement.

Tom
  

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com/dictionary/perspective%5B2%5D Definition 2b. the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance <urge you to maintain your perspective and to view your own task in a larger framework - W. J.

  • com/dictionary/perspective%5B2%5D Definition 2b.
  • the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance <urge you to maintain your perspective and to view your own task in a larger framework - W.
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perspective%5B2%5D
Definition 2b.
the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance <urge you to maintain your perspective and to view your own task in a larger framework - W. J. Cohen>

CJ
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"perspective" here refers to standing back and getting an overall "big picture" view of what the disagreement is about, rather than getting bogged down in entrenched positions on relatively unimportant minutiae.

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