| A conventionalist claims that scientific laws or principles are not empirical descriptions of reality but arbitrary conventions or stipulations. |
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| He in turn, should have kept away from the conventionalist normally. |
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| People before our fact-obsessed centuries were fully at ease with the made-up fiction, and so I see myself as a traditionalist rather than a conventionalist I suppose. |
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| Carnap's conventionalist treatment of logic, mathematics, and ontology illustrates this approach. |
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| Yet conventionalist views such as Glaucon's have real difficulties fitting with the common idea that the fundamental principles of morality are universal. |
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| In this way, a conventionalist epistemology only sees science as a way of memorising and classifying phenomena or observations, without seeking to actually attain 7 reality itself. |
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| Minimal entities would thus be language-dependent in this conventionalist sense. |
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| Walzer's critigue of sexism could be be explained and justified, against a conventionalist prosexist alternative, by my account of moral explanation. |
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