Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contrastivism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-trastivism
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From contrastive + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: contrastive

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does contrastivism mean?: 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".
Where does contrastivism come from?: From contrastive + -ism.

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