invariantism
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- (philosophy) A philosophy of invariants, holding that knowledge is not context-sensitive.
- 1988, Joseph W. Smith, The Progress and Rationality of Philosophy As a Cognitive Enterprise: An Essay on Metaphilosophy:
- Unger argues for semantic relativity by arguing that two general semantical theories, contextualism and invariantism, conflict.
- 2008 November 22, David Henderson, “Motivated contextualism”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, :
- 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.