Talk:Context

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[edit] Common sense

Context

1 : the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning

2 : the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs : ENVIRONMENT, SETTING.

Etymologically, it is derived:

from Middle English, weaving together of words,

from Latin contextus connection of words, coherence,

from Latin contexere to weave together,

from Latin com- together + texere to weave;

more at TECHNICAL.

The texere in turn is perhaps akin:

to Latin taxare to feel, estimate, censure,

to Latin tangere to touch,

to Greek technE art, craft, skill,

to Greek tektOn builder, carpenter,

to Sanskrit taksati he fashions, and furthermore,

to Korean tahta to touch,

to Korean ttahta to braid, plait.

Commonsensically and semantically if not etymologically, the notion of context rises from text and linguistics as the determinant of meaning rather than the meaning itself. It is ever-widening in nature as such. As such, it should be expanded up to the state of mind, and further to the state of affairs, if the meaning of a given text is unclear. So we have phenomenology and now contextualism, which is coherentism in another word, as coherence is the essential property of context. Note coherence in the above etymology, in contrast to context as a physical entity.

My rallying point here is that this article should lay the foundation for either contextualism or coherentism, which is becoming the mainstream tenet of the world view! (In this regard, archeology and computer science may not be worth mentioning in the beginning. Archeology is not archaic, not to mention computer science.) --KYPark 09:20, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion of ...

I've expanded the opening statement a bit and added the connotation at the bottom of the list, that "context" can apply to the notion of community, whatever that may be and for what it is worth. • CQ • WP:CBTF • 18:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)