conventionalism

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conventionalism (usually uncountable, plural conventionalisms)

(uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior.
(countable, obsolete) A conventional act or constraint.
- 1864 March 15, Frederick Denison Maurice, “To ____”, in The Life Of Frederick Denison Maurice‎^[1], volume 2, →ISBN, page 478:
  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.
(uncountable, philosophy) The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions.
- 2024 October 2, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 140, number 3, →DOI:
  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.

Adherence to social conventions

(philosophy)