Definition of contextualism in English:
contextualism
noun kənˈtɛkstʃʊəlɪz(ə)mkənˈteksCHo͞oəˌlizəm
mass nounPhilosophy A doctrine which emphasizes the importance of the context of enquiry in a particular question.
Example sentencesExamples
- Simulation, evocation, contextualism: call it what you will, but this thing that we designers are so good at seems to serve a basic human need.
- In very general terms, epistemological contextualism maintains that whether one knows is somehow relative to context.
- There is a social dimension to contextualism that we have ignored with dreadful results.
- Taking fallibilism seriously heads off the charge that contextualism encourages strongly anti-rationalist positions such as relativism.
- Similarly, contextualism and organicism are world hypotheses that tend to see things in terms of wholes, even though they are preoccupied with different dimensions.
Derivatives
noun
Philosophy But we have gone too far down this contextualist blind alley, it isn't particularly relevant.
Example sentencesExamples
- According to contextualists, whether it is correct for a judge to attribute knowledge to someone depends on that judge's context, and the standards for knowledge differ from context to context.
- Descartes is a contextualist in the sense that he allows that different standards of justification are appropriate to different contexts.
- Adopting the assumptions of an ecological contextualist approach creates multiple opportunities for valid research endeavors that diverge from traditional positivistic models.
- A contextualist approach emphasizes the embeddedness of all contexts, so that the individual is seen as embedded in a context, which is in turn embedded in a culture.