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A [philosophical] framework holding that matter and its properties are context-dependent—that what counts as a material object, how it behaves, and what it means vary with the scale, conditions, and theoretical framework in which it is considered. Material [contextualism] challenges the view of matter as a substance with fixed, intrinsic properties. An electron is a particle in some contexts, a wave in others; water is H₂O in chemistry, a thirst-quencher in life, a solvent in biology. [Contextualism] doesn't deny that matter exists, but insists that its properties are always properties-in-context. It demands that scientists and philosophers attend to the conditions that constitute material phenomena.
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