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Meaning of Conventionalism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior.
  2. A conventional act or constraint.
  3. The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions.

Equivalents

Examples

“Having said this, you will not, I trust, suspect me of disliking you for throwing off conventionalisms and speaking to me as a man to a man.”
“Skepticism arrives at conventionalism by way of the claims that the conditions on evidential support cannot be satisfied […] but that we must have beliefs in order to carry on.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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