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From contextual + -ism.
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, →DOI:
If contextualism is true, then change ramifies through all the contextual connections.
- (linguistics) A use of language that is dependent on context.
2020, Alexander Barkovich, Informational Linguistics: The New Communicational Reality, page 125:
In this communicational mode, language units can be differentiated as usualisms and contextualisms (Fig. 4-6).
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- Adjectives often applied to "contextualism": developmental, scientific, epistemic, epistemological, linguistic, semantic, methodological, historical, functional, descriptive, radical, moderate.
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