Contextualism

Contextualism describes a accumulating of angle in aesthetics which accent the ambience in which an action, utterance, or announcement occurs, and argues that, in some important respect, the action, utterance, or announcement can alone be accepted about to that context.1 Contextualist angle authority that philosophically arguable concepts, such as "meaning P," "knowing that P," "having a acumen to A," and possibly even "being true" or "being right" alone accept acceptation about to a defined context. Some philosophers2 authority that context-dependence may advance to relativism;3 nevertheless, contextualist angle are more accepted aural philosophy.4

In ethics, "contextualist" angle are generally carefully associated with situational ethics, or with moral relativism.5

In architectural theory, contextualism is a approach of architecture wherein avant-garde architecture types are harmonized with burghal forms accepted to a acceptable city.6