How To Use Conventionalism In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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Since the nineteenth century many an artist has claimed that he fought the good fight against stuffy conventionalism by baiting the bourgeois.
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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
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Strict conventionalism fails as an interpretation of our legal practice even when especially when - we emphasize its negative part.
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As to the main criticisms of conventionalism, my qualms here have to do with the fact that they are already so familiar.
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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
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These are all extremely entertaining, often silly episodes that fly in the face of the conventionalism most cartoons offer.
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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
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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.”
Hans Reichenbach
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Since the nineteenth century many an artist has claimed that he fought the good fight against stuffy conventionalism by baiting the bourgeois.
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I'm not complaining, it's just that all this uncompromising experimentation - when, that is, concessions aren't made towards conventionalism in terms of integrating it into songs - results in, well, something of a headache.
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This is a bold attempt to unite pragmatism and conventionalism.
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Women's instinctive attitude had a unique chance of displaying itself, and one wondered at the combined prudery and sentiment with which the subject was approached, while the most offensive part of their conventionalism was the sex-obsession, which was clotted, like cream turned sour, on all their judgments.
Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
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For strict conventionalism gives only the negative advice that judges must not pretend to be deciding such cases on legal grounds.
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This is a bold attempt to unite pragmatism and conventionalism.
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Extracts from the novel are included, which show somewhat ambiguously the conventionalism of the writer.
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Instead, all I got to hear was a bunch of highly professional people, educated and polished - moan and cluck their tongues at the 'conventionalism' of all the entries.
State of Play Virtual Architecture 1.0: Contest Judges Say Enough with the Simulacra Already
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If so, it would be classified as nominalism in ontology, and as conventionalism in logical theory.
A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy
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Yes ... "conventionalism" is a better word for what I'm talking about simply because it immediately distances what I'm talking about from the quite separate but nonetheless interesting claim that fantasy as a literary form is institutionally racist.
The Aesthetics of Fat
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(unless they are on sale!) no - i'm kidding. i'm feeling like a trout that's trying to swim upstream ... ergh. then again, i've never really been one to go with "conventionalism" per se.
Moschikat Diary Entry
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Without mentioning Russell or Helmholtz, Reichenbach takes general relativity to have refuted both Poincaré's geometrical conventionalism and Kant's geometrical apriorism.
Hans Reichenbach
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Whatever shortcomings are appointed (for they are more than permitted, they are in such cases appointed, and meritorious) on account of the untractableness of the material, come under the head of "conventionalism by cause of means.
Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853
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These striking and contrasting types existing together at that period, are now rapidly disappearing before that universal conventionalism which is at present seizing and moulding the higher classes in all cities and in all countries.
Life of Chopin
