The view that contexts are infinite—that any phenomenon exists within an unbounded network of contexts, each of which shapes its meaning. You can't fully understand anything because you can't exhaust its contexts: historical context, cultural context, personal context, linguistic context, and on and on, without end. Infinite Contextualism doesn't despair at this—it celebrates the inexhaustibility of meaning. You can always learn more by expanding context, and you'll never reach the end. Understanding is infinite regress, but the regress is the point.
Infinite Contextualism "You think you understand why I said that thing? Infinite Contextualism says: you'd need to understand my childhood, my morning, my relationship with you, the history of the word I used, the phase of the moon, and infinite other contexts. You'll never fully understand—and neither will I. But we can keep trying, and that trying is relationship."
by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026
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