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The position that scientific findings are always true relative to specific contexts, and that exporting them to new contexts requires care. A drug that works in clinical trials may fail in real-world contexts with different patients, different diets, different stressors. A psychological finding from WEIRD populations may not hold in other cultural contexts. Scientific Contextualism doesn't reject generalization—it insists on specifying the conditions under which generalizations hold, and testing them when conditions change. Context isn't noise—it's part of the finding.
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