Contextualism describes a collection of views in philosophy which emphasize the context in which an action, utterance, or expression occurs, and argues that, in some important respect, the action, utterance, or expression can only be understood relative to that context. Contextualist views hold that philosophically controversial concepts, such as ...
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doctrine that context is essential to establishing meaning
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(from the article `music`) In moving from symbolic to contextualist explanations of music, it is well to note that a source of great confusion, in the former, is the fact that ...
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(in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made. · the aesthetic position that a building or the like should be designed for harmony or a meaningful relationship with other such elements already ex...
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