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contextualism

Any view that sees some phenomenon as relative to a context, or insists on the relevance of context for interpretation.

In aesthetics, the doctrine that works of art can be appreciated only by reference to their context, circumstances of production, artist’s intuitions, and so on (also see:ISOLATIONISM).

In ethics, the view that values are instrumental (that is, relative to certain ends); and the view that moral problems only arise – and can only be solved – against a background of principles which themselves can only be assessed by taking some further principles for granted for the moment.

In philosophy of science, the doctrine that theoretical terms can only have contextual meaning; that is meaning which they get by playing a role in a deductive system with empirically testable consequences.

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    • 2.1 The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Vol. 1
    • 2.2 Contextualism
    • 2.3 Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series 17)
    • 2.4 Two Existential Theories of Knowledge: Epistemic Pragmatism and Contextualism
    • 2.5 Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)
    • 2.6 The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)
    • 2.7 Discourse Contextualism: A Framework for Contextualist Semantics and Pragmatics
    • 2.8 Contextualism, Factivity and Closure: A Union That Should Not Take Place? (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy)
    • 2.9 Contextualism in Philosophy: Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth
    • 2.10 Language, Logic, and Mathematics in Schopenhauer (Studies in Universal Logic)

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