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From contrastive + -ism.
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Today it means: 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". Full definition →
From contrastive + -ism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.