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conventionalism

noun

Etymology

From conventional + -ism.

  1. derived from conventiō
  2. borrowed from convention
  3. suffixed as conventional — “convention + -al”
  4. suffixed as conventionalism — “conventional + ism”

Definitions

  1. Adherence to social conventions

    Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior.

  2. A conventional act or constraint.

    • Having said this, you will not, I trust, suspect me of disliking you for throwing off conventionalisms and speaking to me as a man to a man.

  3. The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of…

    The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions.

    • Skepticism arrives at conventionalism by way of the claims that the conditions on evidential support cannot be satisfied […] but that we must have beliefs in order to carry on.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA