conventionalismn.
1. Adherence to or regard for what is conventional (in conduct, thought, or art); tendency to obey conventional usages or regulations.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > a convention > adherence to what is conventional
Grundyism1836
conventionalism1837
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. (1839) III. 178 The incubus of conventionalism.
1882 J. R. Seeley Nat. Relig. 129 The opposite of conventionalism is freshness of feeling, enthusiasm.
2. (with a and plural). Anything characterized by adherence to mere convention; a conventional principle, idea, usage, or practice.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > a convention > a conventional thing, practice, or way of life
conventionalism1833
conventionalitya1834
strait and narrow1953
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > convention > a convention
convention1791
convenances1831
conventionalism1833
conventionalitya1834
1833 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repository 7 723 Much of education is made up of artificialities and conventionalisms.
1846 in J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang.
1849 Blackwood's Mag. 64 560 His style..is..defaced by conventionalisms the Academy would hardly sanction.
1853 A. J. Morris Business i. 12 A man..had better defraud his creditors, than..violate a single conventionalism of respectable society.
3. Philosophy. 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.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [noun] > conventionalism or conventionalist
conventionalist1931
conventionalism1938
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [noun] > branches of logic
analytic?1566
metalogic1842
alethiology1852
stoicheiologya1856
heuristic1860
psycho-logic1912
criteriology1934
conventionalism1938
imperative logic1939
heuristics1946
1938 H. 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.
1951 G. H. von Wright Treat. i. 27 Conventionalism explains why unsuccessful predictions need not be interpreted as refutations of the theories or laws from which they were made.
1961 T. E. Hill Contemp. Theories of Knowl. xiii. 398 Schlick steadfastly resists such conventionalism as he finds..in the physicist Eddington.
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