invariantism

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English

Etymology

From invariant +‎ -ism.

Noun

invariantism (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) A philosophy of invariants, holding that knowledge is not context-sensitive.
    • 1988, Joseph W. Smith, The Progress and Rationality of Philosophy As a Cognitive Enterprise: An Essay on Metaphilosophy:
      Unger argues for semantic relativity by arguing that two general semantical theories, contextualism and invariantism, conflict.
    • 2008 November 22, David Henderson, “Motivated contextualism”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI:
      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.