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In philosophy, contextualism mostly just emphasizes that actions and utterance happen inside a particular context. | '''In philosophy''', contextualism mostly just emphasizes that actions and utterance happen inside a particular context. | ||
...for example to point out that te meaning of that action may only be understood in that context. | ...for example to point out that te meaning of that action may only be understood in that context. | ||
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And, somewhat more controversially, how '' | And, somewhat more controversially, that how ''correct'' a choice or outcome is may be similarly contextual - which gets into [[ethical relativism]], or at least [[situational ethics]]. | ||
[[situational ethics]]. | |||
In linguistics, it seems contextualism might signal | '''In linguistics''', it seems contextualism might signal | ||
: awareness that utterances are from a discourse, and interpretation draws from the whole | : awareness that utterances are from a discourse, and interpretation draws from the whole | ||
: a formalized semantic system of interpretation - sometimes just "we are restricting ourselves to a domain", sometimes because that makes a particular task less messy. | : a formalized semantic system of interpretation - sometimes just "we are restricting ourselves to a domain", sometimes because that makes a particular task less messy. | ||
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