conventionalism

NOUN
  1. orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
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How To Use conventionalism In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Without mentioning Russell or Helmholtz, Reichenbach takes general relativity to have refuted both Poincaré's geometrical conventionalism and Kant's geometrical apriorism. Hans Reichenbach
  • (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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Extracts from the novel are included, which show somewhat ambiguously the conventionalism of the writer.
  • This is a bold attempt to unite pragmatism and conventionalism.
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