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invariantism

noun

Etymology

From invariant + -ism.

  1. derived from variāns
  2. derived from variant
  3. formed as invariant — “in- + variant”
  4. suffixed as invariantism — “invariant + ism”

Definitions

  1. A philosophy of invariants, holding that knowledge is not context-sensitive.

    • Unger argues for semantic relativity by arguing that two general semantical theories, contextualism and invariantism, conflict.
    • When the agent and the attributer-with-audience have highly similar stakes in the matter in question, then sensitive invariantism and contextualism yields parallel verdicts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for invariantism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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