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Meaning of contrastivism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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".

uncountable

Examples

“In the last section I proposed to broaden contrastivism with respect to admissible kinds of third relata while in the first section I proposed to restrict it with respect to kinds of knowledge.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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