NOUN
- any doctrine emphasizing the importance of the context in solving problems or establishing the meaning of terms
How To Use contextualism In A Sentence
- There is a social dimension to contextualism that we have ignored with dreadful results.
- In fact, it seems even worse if contextualism about the meaning of theoretical terms is adopted. Structural Realism
- 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.
- Relativism or "contextualism" as it is sometimes known, is the more difficult of the two extremes to deal with because there are often immediate political consequences to a rejection of popular beliefs held by significant minorities, which nevertheless do not square with basic ethical, logical, or epistemological principles, much less imperical evidence. Faith, Relativism, and Liberalism
- He views contextualism as a theory of knowledge attribution. Reliabilism
- Some philosophers will find implausible the claim that contextualism is the cure for relativism.
- It is "a very successful example of architectural contextualism, a design approach that was to become particularly popular in the course of the 1980s, and therefore a key representative of its time," according to the Twentieth Century Society, which wants to see it listed. Heritage or horror? Row over Broadgate demolition plan
- Similarly, contextualism and organicism are world hypotheses that tend to see things in terms of wholes, even though they are preoccupied with different dimensions.
- In very general terms, epistemological contextualism maintains that whether one knows is somehow relative to context.
- Similarly, contextualism and organicism are world hypotheses that tend to see things in terms of wholes, even though they are preoccupied with different dimensions.