invariantism

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noun

A philosophy of invariants, holding that knowledge is not context-sensitive.

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Meanings

nouninvariantism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesA philosophy of invariants, holding that knowledge is not context-sensitive.

    Unger argues for semantic relativity by arguing that two general semantical theories, contextualism and invariantism, conflict.

    1988, Joseph W. Smith, The Progress and Rationality of Philosophy As a Cognitive Enterprise: An Essay on Metaphilosophy
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    When the agent and the attributer-with-audience have highly similar stakes in the matter in question, then sensitive invariantism and contextualism yields parallel verdicts.

    2008 November 22, David Henderson, “Motivated contextualism”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI

Origin

From invariant + -ism.

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