conventionalism
Example Sentences
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Yet if authenticity and consistency are among Spayd’s virtues, her vices include obtuse logic, shoddy epistemology, and the sort of common-sense conventionalism that a public editor ought to be challenging rather than championing.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2017
Amy is madly contemptuous of the apparently stifling conventionalism to which Kim has yielded.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2015
Juliet is expressing the theory we call conventionalism: that a name for something is just an agreed-upon convention.
From Slate • Sep. 21, 2014
The philosopher Michael Dummett claimed that it involved full-blooded conventionalism, while Crispin Wright argued for its strict finitism.
From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012
It was destined to be misunderstood, or taken too literally because your ideas are opposed to conventionalism.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
