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conventionalist|kənˈvɛnʃənəlɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. A member or supporter of the French Convention of 1792.
1801Ann. Reg. 1800. 39 The five hundred, animated by the old conventionalists. 1857O. A. Brownson Convert Wks. V. 94 The daughter of Joubert the Conventionalist.
2. One who follows conventional usage.
1846in Worcester. 1858Sat. Rev. V. 562/1 Conventionalists..finding the school of painting too free from convention for their taste.
3. Philos. An adherent of conventionalism 3. Also attrib. Hence conventionaˈlistic a.
1931M. R. Cohen Reason & Nature iii. 142 The conventionalist may answer that the former type of assumption is preferred. Ibid., The conventionalist interpretation given by Mach and Ostwald to the atomic hypothesis. 1948tr. Chwistek's Limits of Sci. x. 287 The conventionalistic position will now be examined. 1962W. & M. Kneale Devel. Logic ii. 19 Conventionalists..hold that necessary connexion..is in some sense man-made and arbitrary. 1962L. J. Cohen Diversity of Meaning §37 Those so-called conventionalist philosophers like Le Roy who think of science ‘as nothing but a well made language’. |