No View from Nowhere

No View from Nowhere

There is no "view from nowhere"—no scale-free, perspective-free truth. Every truth claim is made from within some scale of organization, using models compressed to that scale's capacity.

This is not relativism. Some claims are false at every scale (internal contradictions). Some claims are true at their scale and can be verified by any observer at that scale. But there is no master scale from which all truths can be stated.

Truth is scale-relative but not arbitrary. At each scale, there are facts about cause-effect structure that constrain what can be truly said. The viability imperative ensures that truth-seeking is not merely optional but constitutively necessary for persistence.