Reichenbach writes that: “The solution to the problem of space is ¦ found only in this conception we call conventionalism ¦ which goes back to Helmholtz and Poincaré.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hans Reichenbach] Reference

Besides the intrinsic structure, the rhythm and what is known as the conventionalism of this style adapt themselves but ill to the requirements of true liturgical music. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Indeed, material dependence is a rather weak kind of conventionalism and could even be made compatible with some versions of realism (cf. Hacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

There is no imagination in them nor conventionalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [May, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference

Such conventionalism results from stage necessities.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

The thesis of metric conventionalism had yet to appear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity] Reference

One well known answer we may term force conventionalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla] Reference

It is why Ajdukiewicz called this conventionalism radical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lvov-Warsaw School] Reference

In morals he sets up a higher standard than conventionalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference

The strongest version of conventionalism is ontological relativism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

There is a delightful freedom from conventionalism in the matter of dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train] Reference

We may distinguish between weak conventionalism and strong conventionalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

That husband of mine must leave all conventionalism to his guests, it seems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

This is a considerable radicalization of the conventionalism of Poincaré.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lvov-Warsaw School] Reference

I scoff at your conventionalism and your need to always choose the most popular Pat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barry Bortnick: Heavy Reading] Reference

This may be read as simply establishing the precise terms of Hermogenes 'conventionalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Cratylus] Reference

It is hard to know what apparent paradoxes could run afoul of this modest conventionalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xunzi] Reference

This shift toward nominalism and conventionalism can be seen at many points in his later work.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy] Reference

And that thing is not made with timidness or apathy or conventionalism -- it must be courageous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sebastian Siegel: You Are Magnificent (VIDEO)] Reference

Homer steps out of the dry conventionalism of the English style of painting, which Sargent does not do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

"You have enough conventionalism to-night for us both, my fine lady," twitted Stratton, pinching her arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

There was a time, it is said, when English and American literature seemed to be expiring of conventionalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

Force-conventionalism, even in the weaker form just adumbrated, has been challenged by Strawson, who writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla] Reference

This was explicitly Locke's reason for conventionalism, despite his belief in the existence of real essences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

Formerly, under the influence of conventionalism, instrumentalism concerning scientific theories had adherents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lvov-Warsaw School] Reference

The positions of Hermogenes and Cratylus have come to be known to modern scholarship as ˜conventionalism™ and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Cratylus] Reference

For my part, I hold that no door should be closed to woman, either by force of law or by force of conventionalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

This extreme conventionalism is the most paradoxical and perhaps the most vulnerable part of his later philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy] Reference

He starts out by criticizing conventionalism, and persuades Hermogenes that some kind of naturalism must be endorsed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Cratylus] Reference

"I must confess that it seemed strange to see you here, treading the narrow path of English conventionalism, after -- after --".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference

Nonnatural realism, conventionalism, transcendentalism, and Divine command seem more hospitable metaethical homes for deontology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

Or had the triumphalism of her inappropriateness finally, after years of effort, been beaten back by the power of conventionalism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble with Judith] Reference

Thomas Scanlon offers two criticisms of this sort, which he says persuaded him to abandon conventionalism (Scanlon 1999, p. 297 ff).    From Wordnik.com.  [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference

(Book 2 of the Zhuangzi may derive paradoxical conclusions from conventionalism about kinds, but Xunzi does not raise that issue here.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Xunzi] Reference

These remarks of Poincaré signalled the beginning of conventionalism in the philosophy of science and provided its initial motivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteenth Century Geometry] Reference

Fearlessly he tears the mask away from conventionalism and pretension, sparing neither age nor nation, and scattering critics right and left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

A passion of friendship it may be, but it forces itself through the arid shells of conventionalism; it is at once the agony and the consolation of a despairing soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Nothing had been left rude or native in him; a well-digested conventionalism had incorporated itself thoroughly with his substance and transformed him into a work of art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference

"Oh! I am not at all alarmed!" said Nattie, adding, as her thoughts reverted to Miss Kling, "I think, after all, a Bohemian is better than a perfect model of conventionalism!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference