contrastivism

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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