From Contextualism to Contrastivism

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Schaffer, Jonathan (2004). ‘From Contextualism to Contrastivism’. Philosophical Studies, 119, pp. 73–103.

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Author: Jonathan Schaffer
Source: Philosophical Studies, vol. 119Category:Philosophical Studies/volume 119, 2004, pp. 73–103
Web link: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/phil/2004/00000119/F0020001/05151722
Keywords: epistemology, contrastivism, contextualism, knowledge [edit]

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    author = "Schaffer, Jonathan",
    title = {From Contextualism to Contrastivism},
    journal = "Philosophical Studies",
    volume = "119",
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    pages = "73--103"}

Synopsis

Jonathan Schaffer argues for his own alternative to contextualism, which he calls ‘contrastivism’. This is the view that knowledge attributions have a ternary structure of the form S knows that p rather than q.