Contentual

Quick meaning: Contentual is an adjective meaning (philosophy) Relating to content (as apposed to context).

Meaning

(philosophy) Relating to content (as apposed to context).

Example Sentences

It seems that there is no locution in English that must be read as a prosentence, no argument that requires this reading. Any locution offered as the natural-language paraphrase of contentual quantification can be read in another way.

Presented evidence, appearance, sense experience, in itself, enjoys the rank of content of reality. That is, it claims to be real and deserves to be taken as such so long as proof to the contrary is wanting. I shall call this kind of knowledge 'contentual'; if I may be permitted to coin a word.

It seems to me that a true empiricist can easily note that we use "thought" in four distinct ways. First, thought is a term for a reflective process ; second, it is a term for data, the contentual entities which are objects of awareness; third, it is a term for the act of awareness; fourth, it is a term for an idea of an object, for the contentual thought of an object of reference, for a specific knowledge-claim.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include contextualistic, polycontextural, cotextual, contentional, contextualist, occurrent.

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