contextualism
English edit
Etymology edit
contextual + -ism
Noun edit
contextualism (countable and uncountable, plural contextualisms)
- (philosophy) Any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context
- 2008 March 21, Brendan Larvor, “What can the Philosophy of Mathematics Learn from the History of Mathematics?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, :
- If contextualism is true, then change ramifies through all the contextual connections.
- (linguistics) A use of language that is dependent on context.
- 2020, Alexander Barkovich, Informational Linguistics: The New Communicational Reality, page 125:
- In this communicational mode, language units can be differentiated as usualisms and contextualisms (Fig. 4-6).
Usage notes edit
- Adjectives often applied to "contextualism": developmental, scientific, epistemic, epistemological, linguistic, semantic, methodological, historical, functional, descriptive, radical, moderate.
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Further reading edit
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