acontextual

Scalia just excised the introductory clauses from the Second Amendment to make it read like some acontextual substantive right.

Court Wrong On The Chicago Gun Case 2010

The whole “science is compatible with religion” thing, while not strictly untrue, is dreadfully acontextual as to what religion actually IS and WAS.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Was Heller comparable to Roe v. Wade? 2009

Our bullshit 24/7 acontextual snippet-ry punishes candidates for departing from the blandest of bromides.

Hillary Hits Obama: "Pennsylvanians Don't Need A President Who Looks Down On Them" 2009

To the contrary, you insist on acontextual and eccentric interpretation of the text.

Is That Legal?: A Brief Glimpse Into Why This Debate About the Pope's Auschwitz Speech Matters 2006

This kind of flattened-out, acontextual claim, abstracts from, and blanks out, all the actual details of sociological and political interest.

Women and the Invisible Fist 2008

No one is walking away from it with the idea that I want an acontextual political ideology incapable of challenging bad philosophic trends in contemporary America.

View images tagged “I don’t even know where to begin…” 2008

I mean, I don't know if it's right or not, but the whole point of a reflex is that it's acontextual, right?

"Michael Mukasey... is absolutely correct... that the issue of 'waterboarding' cannot be decided in the abstract." Ann Althouse 2007

But in fact, one might suppose that the proponent of EC would disavow the meaningfulness of the latter question, if it is intended to be one which admits of some acontextual answer.

Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

I mean, I don't know if it's right or not, but the whole point of a reflex is that it's acontextual, right?

"Michael Mukasey... is absolutely correct... that the issue of 'waterboarding' cannot be decided in the abstract." Ann Althouse 2007

Finally, we consider the acontextual processing which occurs when the current context is no longer relevant, and may trigger the switch to another context or the formation of a new context.

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