contextualism

noun — 2 senses

contextualism

noun

Etymology From contextual + -ism.

1

Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences Any 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

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A 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:
Related terms
contextualist, contextualistic, contextualistically, textualism

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