contrastivist

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noun

One who subscribes to contrastivism.

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Meanings

nouncontrastivist (plural contrastivists)

plural contrastivists

  1. human sciencesOne who subscribes to contrastivism.

    Now, I am going to argue that the contrastivist should accept a further condition on the knowledge-relation, a further relativization.

    2008 April 5, Peter Baumann, “Contrastivism Rather than Something Else? On the Limits of Epistemic Contrastivism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI

Origin

From contrastive + -ist.

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Chicago

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