Knowledge constructed by the functional contextualist is general, abstract, and spatiotemporally unrestricted. The knowledge constructed by the descriptive contextualist is personal, ephemeral, specific, and spatiotemporally restricted. Abdullah Saeed embraces this concept suggesting a "Contextualist" approach to interpretation. Contextualist epistemology has been criticized by several philosophers. In ethics, "contextualist" views are often closely associated with situational ethics, or with moral relativism.