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contextualism
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contextualism
The “fitting-in” of a building with surrounding buildings so that it is in harmony with them, especially in terms of scale, form, mass, and color.
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As against the notion of ars historica, he identifies (over) enthusiastic contextualists as scissors-and-paste dustbin amateurs--those who study periods by collecting doggedly all the extant testimony about a certain limited group of events hoping that somehow something will emerge out of it (see Fisher 1970: 3).
Usable vs. abusable past. A reflection apropos of two ... by Semrau, Janusz / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Contextualists among them answer that we can, at least in contexts in which ordinary standards for knowledge are in play, though we could indeed be brains in vats in some mad world a skeptic might imagine.
Epistemological contextualism by Reference & Research Book News
What the Contextualists called the play of claim/counterclaim, I believe, is a difference that lies beyond any propositional claim or counterclaim; it is, rather, difference that infects the poetic as such.
Policing the secret: Alberto Moravia's Il conformista by Chiampi, James T. / Italica
 
 
 
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