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conventionalism
noun 3
Collocations
2VERB + CONVENTIONALISM
arrives
CONVENTIONALISM + NOUN
way
Definitions
noun
1
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 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.
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Synonyms
noun — orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
Antonyms
- unconventionality
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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.
Wiktionary02
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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