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Internalism vs Contextualism - What's the difference?

internalism | contextualism |

As nouns the difference between internalism and contextualism

is that internalism is the doctrine that a particular mental phenomenon, such as motivation or justification, has an internal rather than external basis while contextualism is (philosophy) any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context.

internalism

English

Noun

  • The doctrine that a particular mental phenomenon, such as motivation or justification, has an internal rather than external basis
  • *{{quote-journal, 2008, date=August 30, Josefa Toribio, State Versus Content: The Unfair Trial of Perceptual Nonconceptualism, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-008-9120-3, volume=69, issue=3, pages=
    • , passage=In fleshing out the relations of perceptual justification and perceptual content attribution, both contenders thus grant epistemic internalism . }}

    Related terms

    *internalist *externalism

    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")