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What does contextualism mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) Any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context
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There is a social dimension to contextualism that we have ignored with dreadful results.
Let us turn now, though, to subjunctive conditionals contextualism.
In very general terms, epistemological contextualism maintains that whether one knows is somehow relative to context.
Taking fallibilism seriously heads off the charge that contextualism encourages strongly anti-rationalist positions such as relativism.
In fact, it seems even worse if contextualism about the meaning of theoretical terms is adopted.
Similarly, contextualism and organicism are world hypotheses that tend to see things in terms of wholes, even though they are preoccupied with different dimensions.

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