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conventional +‎ -ism

Noun

conventionalism (usually uncountable; plural conventionalisms)

  1. (uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior
  2. (countable, obsolete) A conventional act or constraint
    • 1864 March 15 Frederick Denison Maurice, “To ____”, in The Life Of Frederick Denison Maurice[1], ISBN 1428661921, page 478:
      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. (uncountable, philosophy) The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions
    • 2007, October 2, Andrew D. Cling, “The epistemic regress problem”, Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 3: 
      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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