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What does conventionalism mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior
  2. (countable, obsolete) A conventional act or constraint
  3. (philosophy) The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions
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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.
There is a delightful freedom from conventionalism in the matter of dress.
Extracts from the novel are included, which show somewhat ambiguously the conventionalism of the writer.
He would have been a subject of some dynasty or a victim of some conventionalism.
Without mentioning Russell or Helmholtz, Reichenbach takes general relativity to have refuted both Poincaré's geometrical conventionalism and Kant's geometrical apriorism.
But instead, we have a world of propriety and conventionalism.

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