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	Conventionalism and Non-Naive Resemblance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Unlike many philosophical opponents of conventionalism, Prinz recognizes that intuition, the philosopher's stock in trade, is of extremely limited use in his discussion.
		Conventionalism was born of a desire to answer questions which could not be addressed by the resemblance theorist.
		In this respect, conventionalists complain that the resemblance view "suffers from a vagueness bordering on vacuity."{7} Conventionalism is offered as a means of explaining why certain of the properties of x, and not others, are relevant to the determination of whether x is a y.
	csmaclab-www.uchicago.edu /philosophyProject/picture/pict_comments.html (1381 words)

	A Refutation of Empiricism and Conventionalism Altogether
		Conventionalism says that the word “green” reflects a social convention, i.e.
		I think it is clear that such a substance is not the matter of the materialism, and if the materialist insist of keeping his term, then he speaks of spirit (intelligence) under then name “matter”, and that, seeing the facts above, he can no longer use the term “matter” in the meaning of materialism.
		Empiricism and conventionalism are a failure not because perceptions and conventions would not exist, but for in their implicit metaphysics (materialism), they deny the consubstantiality of knower, knowledge and known, i.e.
	members.home.nl /tgeorgescu/empiricism.html (935 words)

	PhilSci Archive - Carnap's Metrical Conventionalism versus Differential Topology
		Taking Poincaré as his witness Carnap asserted in his dissertation Der Raum (Carnap 1922) that the metrical structure of space is conventional while the underlying topological structure describes "objective" facts.
		By this means his metrical conventionalism turns out to be indefensible for mathematical reasons.
		This implies that the relation between to-pology and geometry cannot be conceptualized as analogous to the relation between the meaning of a proposition and its expression in some language as logical empiricists used to say.
	philsci-archive.pitt.edu /archive/00001889 (167 words)

	conventionalism from FOLDOC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Conventionalism is a social kind of subjectivistic theory (the usual understanding is that the word "convention" does not refer to the beliefs or values of individuals, only of groups).
		In popular meaning, however, conventionalism refers to a person's tendency to adhere to or have regard for what is customary (in thought or action).
		Nearby terms: contraposition « contraries « control flow « conventionalism » converse » converse accident » conversion
	www.swif.uniba.it /lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?conventionalism (95 words)

	Xunzi (Hsün Tzu) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		He defended a modified conventionalism concerning language: names were not intrinsically appropriate for the objects they referred to, but once usage was determined by convention, to depart from it is wrong.
		It would be a mistake to think of Xunzi’s view as a kind of nominalism, however, since he is very clear that there is an objective reality that names refer to.
		The particular phonemes used to make the word "cat" in language are conventionally determined, but the fact that a cat is a kind of feline is real.
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	IngentaConnect What is Carnap's Conventionalism after all? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As is well known, Carnap's conventionalism was a rejection to Kant's view of mathematics and was fully developed in his Logische Syntax der Sprache.
		I first clarify the notion of conventionalism, which plays a central role in the application of mathematics to the reconstruction of empirical knowledge.
		Contrary to Carnap's conventionalism, a dual nature of mathematical statements is brought into existence by his logical reconstruction.
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	conventionalism - Definition of conventionalism - conventionalism in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		[1913 Webster] All the artifice and conventionalism of life.
		(Fine Arts) The principles or practice of conventionalizing.
		[1913 Webster] --- [from wn] --- :conventionalism n : orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn: conventionality, convention] [ant: unconventionality]
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	conventionalism : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		2 definitions found conventionalism - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Conventionalism *\Conven"tionalism\**, n.
		[1913 Webster] They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms,.
		[1913 Webster] conventionalism - WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) : conventionalism n : orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn: conventionality, convention] [ant: unconventionality]
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	Hans Reichenbach [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		For example, conventionalism states that we can always adopt the Euclidean geometry by means of appropriate definitions.
		But if we adopt a set of definitions so that the geometry on the Earth is Euclidean, it is possible that in another point of the universe the same set of definitions entails a non-Euclidean geometry; so we can discover an objective difference between different points of space.
		It is the experience that decides whether a given geometry belongs to the first group; thus conventionalism's view on geometry is wrong.
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	Definition of Conventionalism in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition - Wunder Dictionary
		Definition of Conventionalism in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition - Wunder Dictionary
		Definition of Conventionalism in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition
		That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
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		2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Conventionalism *\Conven"tionalism\**, n.
		[1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]: conventionalism n : orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn: {conventionality}, {convention}] [ant: {unconventionality}]
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	Gergen's Social Constructionism, Logical Positivism and the Continuity of Error: Part 1: Conventionalism -- Hibberd 11 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gergen's Social Constructionism, Logical Positivism and the Continuity of Error: Part 1: Conventionalism
		and logical positivism is that both embody conventionalism.
		Key Words: conventionalism • history • metatheory • philosophy of science • positivism • social constructionism
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	Natural Law Theory
		As conventionalism was associated with the idea that moral laws vary between societies, it is intuitive to see natural law theory as associated with the idea that moral laws are immutable, unchangeable.
		All that is necessary for a theory to be a natural law theory, in the simple sense introduced so far, is that it oppose conventionalism, that it hold that the moral law is independent of any legislative act.
		Indeed, for many, natural law theory is a theory about the relationship between morality and human nature, the theory that who we are determines how we ought to act.
	www.philosophyofreligion.info /naturallawtheory.html (610 words)

	Abstract of ‘Poincaré's Philosophy of Geometry, or Does geometric conventionalism deserve its name?’
		Abstract of 'Poincaré's Philosophy of Geometry, or Does geometric conventionalism deserve its name?'
		I secondly defend the thesis that, in physical geometry, Poincaré was a structural realist whose so-called conventionalism was epistemological, not ontological.
		I finally show that, by Einstein's own admission, the general theory of relativity is compatible with Poincaré's epistemological theses.
	www.lse.edu /collections/CPNSS/projects/structuralism/abstracts/poincaresPhilosophyOfGeometry.htm (257 words)

	Logical Pluralism \| Log
		The rest of that issue of the Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic is on MacColl, and there are other articles worth reading in it too.
		There are a lot of non-pluralism-related chores to do this semester, including teaching, preparing the move to UConn, and more.
		My suggestion is that pluralism may be independent of conventionalism (and related issues) too.
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		They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms,.
		1 definition found From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]: conventionalism n : orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn: {conventionality}, {convention}] [ant: {unconventionality}]
		1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Conventionalism *\Conven"tionalism\**, n.
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		"Conventionalism" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
		conventionalism n : orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn: conventionality, convention] [ant: unconventionality]
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	Arché TWiki . Dept . MetAndSci2003Lecture11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Scepticism: the Flatlanders don't know whether they live in A or B. We don't know whether whether GR is true.
		Conventionalism: there's no physical difference between A and B. There's no difference between GR and our imagined neo-Newtonian theory of gravity.
		Realism: there is a difference, and we can know.
	weka.ucdavis.edu /~ahwiki/bin/view/Dept/MetAndSci2003Lecture11 (809 words)

	Jules Henri Poincaré [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		He argued for conventionalism and against both formalism and logicism.
		Cantor's set theory was also an object of his criticism.
		Poincaré's attitude towards conventionalism is illustrated by the following statement, which concluded his analysis on classical mechanics in Science and Hypothesis:
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/poincare.htm (3565 words)

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	Conventionalism - Definition of Conventionalism by Webster's Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Conventionalism - Definition of Conventionalism by Webster's Online Dictionary
		They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, - wrapped in conventionalisms,.
		conventionalism - orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
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	Conventionalism
		Explanations > Social Research > Philosophies of Social Research > Conventionalism
		We tend to conform to conventions, remaining within canonized paradigms.
		Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
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	Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Then I use this account to give precise definitions of the important but slippery notions of criterion of identity, sortal concept, and category.
		Stuff and things: does Modal Conventionalism lead to Objectual Anti-Realism?
		In this paper I address Michael Rea’s and Crawford Elder’s recent arguments to this effect.
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	Arché TWiki . Main . FieldConventionalismInstrumentalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Go Hartry Field, "Conventionalism and Instrumentalism in Semantics", Noûs 9 (1975), pp.
		@Article{FieldConventionalismInstrumentalism, author = {Hartry Field}, title = {Conventionalism and Instrumentalism in Semantics}, journal = {Noûs}, year = {1975}, volume = {9}, pages = {375--405}, }
		Revision r1.2 - 23 Mar 2005 - 17:56 - RobertWilliams
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