contextualism
English
Etymology
contextual + -ism
Noun
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.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "contextualism": developmental, scientific, epistemic, epistemological, linguistic, semantic, methodological, historical, functional, descriptive, radical, moderate.
Related terms
Further reading
- contextualism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia