contrastivist

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English

Etymology

From contrastive +‎ -ist.

Noun

contrastivist (plural contrastivists)

  1. (philosophy) One who subscribes to contrastivism.
    • 2008 April 5, Peter Baumann, “Contrastivism Rather than Something Else? On the Limits of Epistemic Contrastivism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
      Now, I am going to argue that the contrastivist should accept a further condition on the knowledge-relation, a further relativization.