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Contextual vs Relativism - What's the difference?

contextual | relativism |

As an adjective contextual

is of, pertaining to, or depending on the context of information; relating to the situation or location in which the information was found.

As a noun relativism is

(uncountable|philosophy) the theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.

contextual

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or depending on the context of information; relating to the situation or location in which the information was found.

    • relativism

    English

    (wikipedia relativism)

    Noun

  • (uncountable, philosophy) The theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.
  • (countable, philosophy) A specific such theory, advocated by a particular philosopher or school of thought.
  • * 2008 , Paul Boghossian, “Replies to Wright, MacFarlane and Sosa,” Philosophical Studies , vol. 141, no. 3, p. 413:
    • Following Gilbert Harman’s lead, my own formulation of relativism' about the normative domain was based on the classic examples of thoroughgoing ' relativisms drawn from physics.

    See also

    * alternativism * pragmatism