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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

21560	Any linguistic expression may lack meaning when taken out of context [Russell]
	Full Idea: Any sentence, a single word, or a single component phrase, may often be quite devoid of meaning when separated from its context.
	From: Bertrand Russell (Substitutional Classes and Relations [1906], p.165)
	A reaction: Contextualism is now extremely fashionable, in philosophy of language and in epistemology. Here Russell is looking for a contextual way to define classes [so says Lackey, the editor].