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conventionalism|kənˈvɛnʃənəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism.]
1. Adherence to or regard for what is conventional (in conduct, thought, or art); tendency to obey conventional usages or regulations.
1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. (1839) III. 178 The incubus of conventionalism. 1882Seeley Nat. Relig. 129 The opposite of conventionalism is freshness of feeling, enthusiasm.
2. (with a and pl.). Anything characterized by adherence to mere convention; a conventional principle, idea, usage, or practice.
1833Mill in Monthly Repos. VII. 723 Much of education is made up of artificialities and conventionalisms. 1846in Worcester. 1849Blackw. Mag. LXIV. 560 His style..is..defaced by conventionalisms the Academy would hardly sanction. 1853A. J. Morris Business i. 12 A man..had better defraud his creditors, than..violate a single conventionalism of respectable society.
3. Philos. The doctrine that the truths of logic, or of mathematics, or the principles of physical science, merely express, or are true in virtue of, conventions with regard to the use of symbols.
1938H. Reichenbach Exper. & Predict. §1, Within the frame of the modern philosophy of science there is a movement bearing the name of conventionalism; it tries to show that most of the epistemological questions contain no questions of truth-character but are to be settled by arbitrary decisions. 1951G. H. von Wright Treatise i. 27 Conventionalism explains why unsuccessful predictions need not be interpreted as refutations of the theories or laws from which they were made. 1961T. E. Hill Contemp. Theories of Knowl. xiii. 398 Schlick steadfastly resists such conventionalism as he finds..in the physicist Eddington. |