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Contextualist vs Contextualism - What's the difference?

contextualist | contextualism | Related terms |

Contextualism is a related term of contextualist.



As nouns the difference between contextualist and contextualism

is that contextualist is a proponent of contextualism, or the importance of context while contextualism is any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context.

As an adjective contextualist

is of, pertaining to, or supporting contextualism.

contextualist

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or supporting contextualism
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A proponent of contextualism, or the importance of context
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 29, author=Christopher Gray, title=A Man Who Minds His P’s and Q’s, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=He is more of a contextualist , believing that “letters are fluid, that they change with time and circumstance — the entire word is more important than a single letter, and its form can fluctuate.” }}

    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.