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en-wikipedia-org-5672		Functional contextualism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1243	127	47	Functional contextualism serves as the basis of a theory of language known as relational frame theory[1] and its most prominent application, acceptance and commitment therapy.[2] It is an extension and contextualistic interpretation of B.F. Skinner's radical behaviorism first delineated by Steven C. Contextualism is Pepper's term for the philosophical pragmatism developed by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and others. This approach reveals a strong adherence to the root metaphor of contextualism and can be likened to the enterprise of history, in which stories of the past are constructed in an attempt to understand whole events. Functional contextualism[edit] This approach reveals a strong adherence to contextualism's extremely practical truth criterion and can be likened to the enterprise of science or engineering, in which general rules and principles are used to predict and influence events. Functional contextualism: A pragmatic philosophy for behavioral science. Constructing a pragmatic science of learning and instruction with functional contextualism.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5672.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5672.txt