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The term “context” originally applied to language and referred to the connections between words and sentences in a discourse. The word “context” comes from the Latin “contextere” meaning “to weave together.” The Oxford English Dictionary (Simpson and Weiner, 1989) defines context as, “[t]he whole structure of a connected passage regarded in its bearing upon any of the parts which constitute it; the parts which constitute it; the parts which immediately precede or follow any particular passage or text and determine its meaning.” Use of the word “context” has evolved so that it is now applied to actions more generally. Typically, context is used to refer to the various conditions in which an action is done or an event occurs. Context is seen to affect the ways in which actions are carried out and to influence the descriptions of events.
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Grosz, B.J. (1999). The Contexts of Collaboration. In: Korta, K., Sosa, E., Arrazola, X. (eds) Cognition, Agency and Rationality. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1070-1_11
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