Harrison adds that the "contextual charms" idea was developed for where there are co-occurrences of two things — such as reading a PDF on your phone, then tapping it on a printer.
As we have seen, already before Gergonne and Jeremy Bentham, Bolzano advanced the idea of contextual definitions in the Contributions (1810): we grasp the meaning of a simple idea "from the use or the context" (Russ 2004, 107; the quotation is from Bolzano 1837, IV, 547).
The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called "contextual computing".
They appeal at one point to the dubious idea of "contextual objectivity": al-Jazeera presents an Arab view of the world, just as CNN presents an American one.
While these data concur with the idea that contextual features are absent in abstract representations, they suggest an important role for the hands-on experience.
Moreover, the data lend support to the idea that contextual information may be lost from memories before they reach the neocortex.
The idea of contextual snapshots is based on the fact that the semantics of the user-made selections depend on what is currently displayed.
Thus, the manuscript should be a bit more balanced in acknowledging such previous contributions to the field, particularly when the idea of contextual variation in costimulation requirements has been reviewed recently (Wotzman et al., Immunol Rev 2013).
The idea of contextual snapshots is to harness a single mechanism of 2D spatial selections for different tasks, such as data selection and manipulation, data annotation or specification of DOI functions.
