different between contextualism vs relativism

English

Etymology

contextual +? -ism

Noun

contextualism (countable and uncountable, plural contextualisms)

1. (philosophy) Any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "contextualism": developmental, scientific, epistemic, epistemological, linguistic, semantic, methodological, historical, functional, descriptive, radical, moderate.

Related terms

• contextualist
• contextualistic
• contextualistically
• textualism

Further reading

• contextualism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From relative +? -ism.

Noun

relativism (countable and uncountable, plural relativisms)

1. (uncountable, philosophy) The theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.
2. (countable, philosophy) A specific such theory, advocated by a particular philosopher or school of thought.
   • 2008, Paul Boghossian, “Replies to Wright, MacFarlane and Sosa,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 141, no. 3, p. 413:

     Following Gilbert Harman’s lead, my own formulation of relativism about the normative domain was based on the classic examples of thoroughgoing relativisms drawn from physics.

Translations

See also

• alternativism
• pragmatism

References

• relativism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• relativism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• relativism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Romanian

Etymology

From French relativisme

Noun

relativism n (uncountable)

1. relativism

Declension