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A philosophical framework holding that empirical knowledge is context-dependent—that what counts as empirical evidence, how data are interpreted, and what conclusions are warranted vary with the context of inquiry, the available methods, and the theoretical frameworks in place. Empirical contextualism challenges the idea of brute, context-free facts. What counts as data in one context may be noise in another; what is considered well-established in one field may be preliminary in another. Contextualism demands that scientists and philosophers attend to the contexts that shape empirical knowledge and recognize that empiricism is always empiricism-in-context.
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