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Abstract Epistemic contextualism-the view that the content of the predicate 'know' can change with the context of utterance-has fallen into considerable disrepute recently.

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  1. any doctrine emphasizing the importance of the context in solving problems or establishing the meaning of terms

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  • Occupying the entire block where Alexander's once stood (the store closed in 1992 and the building was razed seven years later), this building is a success, albeit an uneven one, given that its generally modernist vocabulary has elements of unresolved contextualism. —  The Real Deal New York - Latest News
  • Abstract Epistemic contextualism-the view that the content of the predicate 'know' can change with the context of utterance-has fallen into considerable disrepute recently. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The paper concludes that none of these objections can provide decisive evidence against contextualism. adjectives binding binding_argument compositionality conditionals confabulation consciousness contextualism convention disagreement epistemic_modals epistemic_relativism epistemology evidential_markers experimental_pragmatics faultless_disagreement free_enrichment hidden_variables history_of_semantics indexicalism indexical_relativism introspection invariantism language_development lewis linguistics meta-ethics metasemantics minimalism modals moral_objectivism moral_realism moral_relativism narrative_self negation_test pragmatics presupposition referentialattributive_distinction relativism religious_disagreement response_dependence saturation scope self-deception semantic_blindness semantics skepticism subjectivism taste_objectivism taste_predicates truth unarticulated_constituents underdeterminacy CiteULike organises scholarly —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The wood and stone accents of the interior fully bore out the nascent contextualism of the mod aesthetic that dominated the façade. —  New York Sun - All Articles
  • MAKING SENSE OF CONCEPTUAL CHANGE body coherence computation conceptual_change contextualism friedman geology kant kuhn laudan rationality relativism revolution science thagard CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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