God's eye view
God's eye view is a name for a point of view where the speaker or writer assumes they have knowledge only God would have. It appears several ways:
- In religion, when an institution claims to speak for a divine being.
- In writing, when a writer leaves the point of view of the main actor to start writing about things they could not know if the story were in real life.
- In science, when a scientist ignores the way a subject-object problem affects statistics or an observer effect affects experiment.
- In medicine, when a doctor makes a claim that the gaze they use on a patient, actually sees the problem, rather than making a guess at a problem.
- In ethics, when a statement is made about who or what is right, without an honest attempt to make the process of deciding this consider all points of view.[...]
Many people think René Descartes took a God's eye view when he said cogito ergo sum. George Berkeley argued that optics from Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler also had this problem.
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| Salvador Dalí (1951) Cristo de San Juan de la Cruz |