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Context vs Contextualism - What's the difference?

context | contextualism |

As nouns the difference between context and contextualism

is that context is the surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence while contextualism is any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context.

As a verb context

is to knit or bind together; to unite closely.

As an adjective context

is knit or woven together; close; firm.

context

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
    • In what context did your attack on him happen? - We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.}}
  • (senseid) (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
  • (archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
  • (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.

    • Antonyms

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    Derived terms

    () * context-dependent * context-free * context-sensitive * in context, compare in isolation * keyword in context, KWIC * keyword out of context, KWOC * out of context * take out of context

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "context")

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
    • (Feltham)
  • * R. Junius
    • The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
  • * Derham
    • The coats, without, are context and callous.
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    contextualism

    English

    Noun

  • (philosophy) Any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context
  • *{{quote-journal, 2008, date=March 21, Brendan Larvor, What can the Philosophy of Mathematics Learn from the History of Mathematics?, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-008-9107-0, volume=68, issue=3, pages=
    • , passage=If contextualism is true, then change ramifies through all the contextual connections. }}

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "contextualism": developmental, scientific, epistemic, epistemological, linguistic, semantic, methodological, historical, functional, descriptive, radical, moderate.

    Related terms

    * contextualist * contextualistic * contextualistically

    External links

    * (wikipedia "contextualism")