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A comprehensive philosophical framework holding that everything—facts, knowledge, reality, truth, value—is context-dependent, and that context itself is irreducible, multiple, and constitutive. Pancontextualism goes beyond contextualism (which acknowledges context-dependence) to insist that there is no context-free foundation—no perspective from nowhere, no universal standard, no neutral ground. Every claim, every method, every standard emerges from and operates within contexts that are themselves multiple and interacting. Pancontextualism doesn't lead to relativism; it leads to attention to context. It demands that we stop searching for context-free foundations and instead develop the capacity to navigate contexts, to understand how they interact, and to recognize that the richness of reality is reflected in the multiplicity of contexts through which it appears.
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