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Definition of "conventionalist" []

  • Of, pertaining to, or supporting conventionalism (adjective)
  • A member or supporter of the National Convention. (noun)
  • A supporter or adherent of conventionalism (noun)

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Use "conventionalist" in a sentence
  • "This is called the conventionalist strategy by Popper."
  • "Against the "rational capacity", "conventionalist", Kantian and early Wittgensteinian views, other philosophers, especially radical empiricists and naturalists (not to speak of epistemological skeptics), have rejected the claim that a priori knowledge exists (hence by implication also the claim that analytic propositions exist), and they have proposed instead that there is only an illusion of apriority."
  • "The "rational capacity" view and the "conventionalist" view agree that, in a broad sense, the epistemic ground of logical truths resides in our ability to analyze the meanings of their expressions, be these understood as conventions or as objective ideas."