"What comes," James explains, "must be sifted and tested, and run the gauntlet of confrontation with the total context of experience".
Literature can be a stimulus to moral reflection unequalled perhaps by any other, for it presents the moral choice in its total context with nothing of relevance omitted.
Mr. Wollheim, developing the ideas of Wittgenstein and Freud, argued that art could be understood only within its total context, from history to the nature of the surrounding community to the viewers' and artists' emotional dispositions and physical and psychic needs.
His position makes more sense in the total context of the book, which portrays the stark differences between boys and their fathers gathered around campfires and the corporate bureaucracy of the Boy Scouts of America as an organization that seems hellbent on ensuring its own irrelevance.
Expanding on his concept of "Little Things That Mean a Lot", Wilson said it concerned matters which "though they may not be of major importance in the total context of government policy, arouse strong feelings in the country and among our supporters".
Virtue ethicists are reluctant to judge actions in isolation from the total context of an individual's life.
The derivation demanded by theory reduction for molecular biology requires that the premises contain a purely molecular specification of the total context.
Schaffner's move to include the total context implies that any two possible situations will have distinct overall molecular configurations, but others view this as the same mechanism in different contexts.
