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- noun philosophy An
epistemological theory suggesting thatknowledge attributions have aternary structure of the form "S knows that p rather than q", in contrast to thetraditional view whereby knowledge attributions have abinary 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
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(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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