How To Use conventionalism In A Sentence
- The more interesting tension I find between the papers is in my defense of realism about genes, and the kind of anti-realist conventionalism I think holds in the theory of natural selection.
- In the reaction against the monotony of formalism and of that deadly conventionalism which is the peril of every accepted method in religion, art, education, or politics, men are ready to welcome any revolt, however extravagant. Essays on Work and Culture
- Naturalism about natural kind classifications contrasts with conventionalism (also called constructivism or constructionism), the view natural kinds don™t exist independently of us. Natural Kinds
- Since the nineteenth century many an artist has claimed that he fought the good fight against stuffy conventionalism by baiting the bourgeois.
- 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. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- Strict conventionalism fails as an interpretation of our legal practice even when especially when - we emphasize its negative part.
- As to the main criticisms of conventionalism, my qualms here have to do with the fact that they are already so familiar.
- Elizabethan and Jacobian periods is particularly full; and this is as it should be; for at no time was our language more equally removed from conventionalism and commonplace, or so fitted to refine strength of passion with recondite thought and airy courtliness of phrase. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
- These are all extremely entertaining, often silly episodes that fly in the face of the conventionalism most cartoons offer.
- Indeed, material dependence is a rather weak kind of conventionalism and could even be made compatible with some versions of realism (cf. Hacking Natural Kinds
