contrastivism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An epistemological theory suggesting that knowledge attributions have a ternary structure of the form "S knows that p rather than q", in contrast to the traditional view whereby knowledge attributions have a binary structure of the form "S knows that p".

Word forms

contrastivism

Etymology

From contrastive + -ism.

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