Dictionary

contextualism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English contextual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English contextualism From contextual + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context
   • If contextualism is true, then change ramifies through all the contextual connections. 2008 March 21, Brendan Larvor, “What can the Philosophy of Mathematics Learn from the History of Mathematics?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, →DOI:
2. (countable, uncountable) A use of language that is dependent on context.
   • In this communicational mode, language units can be differentiated as usualisms and contextualisms (Fig. 4-6). 2020, Alexander Barkovich, Informational Linguistics: The New Communicational Reality, page 125:

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Relateds

textualism · contextualistically · contextualistic · contextualist