• (n.) That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. • (n.) The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t.
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(from the article `Realism`) ...which regard objects as comprising nothing more than private volleys or families of disconnected sense fragments, Realism grounds objects in real ... [3 related articles]
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The view that
a priori truths, logical axioms, or scientific laws have no absolute validity but are disguised conventions representing one of a number of possible alternatives. The French...
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Con·ven'tion·al·ism noun 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. « All the artifice and
conventionalism of life.
Hawthorne. » « They gaze on all with de...
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philosophical attitude that fundamental principles of a certain kind are grounded on (explicit or implicit) agreements in society, rather than on external reality. Although this attitude is commonly held with respect to the rules of grammar and the principles of etiquette, its application to the propositions of law, ethics, science, mathematics, an...
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Any doctrine according to which a priori truth, or the truth of propositions of logic, or the truth of propositions (or of sentences) demonstrable by purely logical means, is a matter of linguistic or postulational convention (and thus not absolute in character). H. Poincare (q.v.) regarded the choice of axioms as conventional (cf. Science et hypo....
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adherence to or advocacy of conventional attitudes or practices. · something conventional, as an expression or attitude. · the view that fundamental principles are validated by definition, agreement, or convention.
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