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epistemic contrastivism: a standalone construct

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Epistemology

the view that knowledge is a relation to a proposition and a contrast class, as in knowing p rather than q.

In epistemology, epistemic contrastivism refers to the view that knowledge is a relation to a proposition and a contrast class, as in knowing p rather than q. This meaning comes from Schaffer (2004) in Philosophical Studies.[1]

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class3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs contrast4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs knowledge6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Schaffer, J. (2004). From Contextualism to Contrastivism. Philosophical Studies, 119(1-2), 73-103. https://doi.org/10.1023/b:phil.0000029351.56460.8c

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