"The View From Nowhere"
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"The View From Nowhere" is a philosophical book by Thomas Nagel that explores the tension between subjective experience and an objective, detached standpoint in understanding mind, morality, and reality.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| "The View From Nowhere" canonical | 1 |
| The View from Nowhere | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4231358 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "The View From Nowhere" Context triple: [Thomas Nagel, hasWork, "The View From Nowhere"]
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A.
Enter Nowhere
Enter Nowhere is a 2011 psychological thriller film about three strangers mysteriously trapped at a remote cabin in the woods, where they uncover a mind-bending connection between them.
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B.
The View from the Ground
The View from the Ground is a collection of Martha Gellhorn’s incisive journalistic writings that reflect her experiences and observations as a pioneering war correspondent and travel writer.
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C.
How Not to Be Seen
"How Not to Be Seen" is a famous absurdist sketch from the British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus that parodies instructional films by demonstrating, with darkly comic results, the importance of remaining unseen.
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D.
“On What There Is”
“On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
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E.
As He Saw It
"As He Saw It" is a memoir by Elliott Roosevelt that offers an insider’s account of his father Franklin D. Roosevelt’s views and experiences during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "The View From Nowhere" Target entity description: "The View From Nowhere" is a philosophical book by Thomas Nagel that explores the tension between subjective experience and an objective, detached standpoint in understanding mind, morality, and reality.
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A.
Enter Nowhere
Enter Nowhere is a 2011 psychological thriller film about three strangers mysteriously trapped at a remote cabin in the woods, where they uncover a mind-bending connection between them.
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B.
The View from the Ground
The View from the Ground is a collection of Martha Gellhorn’s incisive journalistic writings that reflect her experiences and observations as a pioneering war correspondent and travel writer.
-
C.
How Not to Be Seen
"How Not to Be Seen" is a famous absurdist sketch from the British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus that parodies instructional films by demonstrating, with darkly comic results, the importance of remaining unseen.
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D.
“On What There Is”
“On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
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E.
As He Saw It
"As He Saw It" is a memoir by Elliott Roosevelt that offers an insider’s account of his father Franklin D. Roosevelt’s views and experiences during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ philosophy book ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
epistemology
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ethics ⓘ philosophy ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Nagel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| explores |
foundations of morality
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limits of objectivity ⓘ nature of consciousness ⓘ nature of reasons ⓘ relationship between first-person and third-person perspectives ⓘ tension between subjective and objective viewpoints ⓘ |
| genre |
analytic philosophy
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philosophy ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
contemporary philosophy of mind
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debates on moral realism ⓘ debates on objectivity in ethics ⓘ discussions of the first-person perspective ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
critical of purely objective standpoint
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critical of reductionism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
G. E. Moore
NERFINISHED
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Henry Sidgwick NERFINISHED ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Ludwig Wittgenstein ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
epistemology
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ethics ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ moral objectivity ⓘ objectivity ⓘ personal identity ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ practical reason ⓘ self ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
standpoint of objectivity
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subjective standpoint ⓘ view from nowhere ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| publisher | Oxford University Press ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Mortal Questions
NERFINISHED
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book "Mortal Questions" ⓘ
surface form:
Mortal Questions (book by Thomas Nagel)
What Does It All Mean? ONDG ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: "The View From Nowhere" Description of subject: "The View From Nowhere" is a philosophical book by Thomas Nagel that explores the tension between subjective experience and an objective, detached standpoint in understanding mind, morality, and reality.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thomas Nagel
this entity surface form:
The View from Nowhere