conventionalism
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editEtymology
editconventional + -ism
Noun
editconventionalism (usually uncountable, plural conventionalisms)
- (uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior.
- (countable, obsolete) A conventional act or constraint.
- (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, :
- 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.
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editAdherence to social conventions
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