Re: DIferent angle and different perspective

Roger wrote:
> cyberdude wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What are the differences in the meaning of the following sentences?
> >
> > It will give us different information if looked from a different angle.
> >
> > It will give us different information if looked from a different
> > perspective.
> >
> > By the way, are there significant differences between the usage of
> > "angle" and "perspective"? Thank you in advance.
> >
> > David
>
> In my opinion, "angle" has a wider application, i.e. it is commonly
> used both for something physical and for something abstract.
> "Perspective", on the other hand, is more commonly used in an abstract
> sense. On the other hand, there are many cases where the two words are
> interchangeable.
>
> By the way, you need to use the preposition "at" in both sentences,
> i.e.
> "It will give us differeent information if looked AT from a different
> angle" and "It will give us different information if looked AT from a
> different perspective". Or you could use "viewed" instead of "looked
> at".
>
> Roger

Agreed about the "at" but to me:

"angle" suggests a phyical moving as this quote suggests:

<quote>

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes
thoughtfully; "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if
you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in
an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different."

</quote>

The Boscombe Valley Mystery
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=DoyBosc.sgm&image...


....whereas it is "perspective" that has the wider connotation,
particularly in respect of data. You can reclassify it, reanalyse it,
do anything you want to it, even "view it in a different light".

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