contextualism

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noun

Any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context

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Meanings

nouncontextualism (countable and uncountable, plural contextualisms)

plural contextualisms

  1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesAny of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context

    If contextualism is true, then change ramifies through all the contextual connections.

    2008 March 21, Brendan Larvor, “What can the Philosophy of Mathematics Learn from the History of Mathematics?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, →DOI
  2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesA use of language that is dependent on context.

    In this communicational mode, language units can be differentiated as usualisms and contextualisms (Fig. 4-6).

    2020, Alexander Barkovich, Informational Linguistics: The New Communicational Reality, page 125

Origin

From contextual + -ism.

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