5 March 2019 - context context

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Let’s consider the context of context. As a speech act, bringing up an item’s context calls attention to the item’s immediate environment in some sense: The duck’s context, the diplomatic context. It’s not a way of broadening the view, but of narrowing it. I think we need a word that means “to take a systems view.”

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