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A philosophical framework holding that facts are shaped by multiple, irreducible contexts—scientific, historical, social, cultural, institutional—that interact to constitute what counts as fact. A single event is a fact in a meteorological context, a fact in an economic context, a fact in a political context, a fact in a personal context, each context producing different factual descriptions that are not reducible to one another. Factual multicontextualism insists that no single context exhausts the reality of facts and that understanding factual claims requires mapping how contexts interrelate. It demands that we resist the temptation to reduce facts to any one framework (e.g., science) and instead embrace the multiplicity of contexts that give facts meaning.
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