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  • noun philosophy 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".

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  • According to the first of these views, as Schaffer discusses it, while EC holds that ˜knows™ expresses different two-term relations (between subjects and propositions) in different contexts, according to contrastivism, ˜knows™ denotes a three-place relation, with a contrast variable being included among the relata.

    Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

  • (Some claim that contrastivism in a species of EC; for Schaffer on the differences between contrastivism and canonical versions of EC, see his

    Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

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