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are context-sensitive
adjective
Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.
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A popular but hotly contested view in recent epistemology says that the truth conditions for knowledge ascriptions are context-sensitive, due to the context-sensitivity of the verb 'knows'knows
All controls are context-sensitive, with different abilities available when you're locked on.
These expressions, I will argue, are context-sensitive, but not in the familiar way.
It is uncontroversial that many English words are context-sensitive.
Some theorists propose to explain this variation by hypothesizing that quantifier phrases are context-sensitive.
Some theorists explain the variability by holding that gradable adjectives are context-sensitive.
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Thus, Cappelen and Lepore propose roughly the following test for context-sensitivity. \(S\) is context-sensitive iff: it is possible that [(i) \(A\) utters sentence \(S\) and yet (ii) "\(A\) said that \(S\)" is false in some context].
And while '(is) justified' is obviously gradable, even if gradability were sufficient for context-sensitivity, from the fact that knowledge requires justification it would not follow that 'knows' is context-sensitive as well (pace Cohen 1999, 60).
When users click on a tag, there was always a pop-up menu offering options, and the options were context-sensitive.
The toolbox we developed for and with practitioners (involved in designing and implementing energy demand-side programmes) differs accordingly, among others in that it is context-sensitive.
Although the definition of the term reasonable is context-sensitive, it is based on the notion that the use should not deprive or hinder other riparian users from correlative enjoyment of the resource.
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