Conventionalism is the philosophical attitude that fundamental principles of a certain kind are grounded on (explicit or implicit) agreements in society, rather than on external reality. …
3 天之前 · A theory that magnifies the role of decisions, or free selection from amongst equally possible alternatives, in order to show that what appears to be objective or fixed by nature is in …
2016年11月30日 · Conventionalism is the methodological doctrine that asserts that explanatory ideas should not be considered true or false but merely better or worse. The truth status of …
2023年12月16日 · Conventionalism may be characterized as a position according to which a certain fact is (or is determined by) a convention. In other words, a conventionality thesis …
Conventionalism, cor-rectly understood, is motivated by a desire to mitigate deceptive ascription of truth. To the conventionalist, the very idea of truth by convention is as incongruous as that …
law of nature, in the philosophy of science, a stated regularity in the relations or order of phenomena in the world that holds, under a stipulated set of conditions, either universally or in …