Add to ORKGWithin the epistemology of the sciences, conventionalism\ud has been the subject of regular criticism for over six\ud decades. Critics such as W. V. Quine and Morton White,\ud and more recently Nathan Salmon (1992), and Paul\ud Boghossian (1996), have attacked even the most basic\ud tenet of conventionalism, namely its claim that the truth of\ud certain statements is fixed not by stipulation-independent\ud facts, but by the conventions governing the meaning of\ud those statements and their constituents
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Hilary Putnam first published the consistency objection against Ludwig Wittgenstein’s account of mat...
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According to linguistic conventionalism, necessities are to be explained in terms of the conventiona...
One of the most influential arguments against the possibility of drawing a principled fact-conventio...
Once upon a time, logical conventionalism was the most popular philosophical theory of logic. It was...
Conventional wisdom has it that truth is always evaluated using our actual linguistic conventions, e...
The laws of classical logic are taken to be logical truths, which in turn are taken to hold objectiv...
We are confident of many of the judgements we make as to what sorts of alterations the members of na...
Conventionalism is a viewpoint, most closely associated with the later writings of Wittgenstein, tha...
The laws of classical logic are taken to be logical truths, and logical truths are taken to objectiv...
This paper examines whether, and in what contexts, Duhem’s and Poincaré’s views can be regarded as c...
Traditional conventionalism about modality claims that a proposition is necessarily true iff it is t...
According to Wittgenstein, mathematical propositions are rules of grammar, that is, conventions, or ...
Hilary Putnam first published the consistency objection against Ludwig Wittgenstein’s account of mat...
Philosophy of science and mainstream epistemology have much to leam from each other. Most twentienth...
According to linguistic conventionalism, necessities are to be explained in terms of the conventiona...
One of the most influential arguments against the possibility of drawing a principled fact-conventio...
Once upon a time, logical conventionalism was the most popular philosophical theory of logic. It was...
Conventional wisdom has it that truth is always evaluated using our actual linguistic conventions, e...
The laws of classical logic are taken to be logical truths, which in turn are taken to hold objectiv...
We are confident of many of the judgements we make as to what sorts of alterations the members of na...
Conventionalism is a viewpoint, most closely associated with the later writings of Wittgenstein, tha...
The laws of classical logic are taken to be logical truths, and logical truths are taken to objectiv...
This paper examines whether, and in what contexts, Duhem’s and Poincaré’s views can be regarded as c...
Traditional conventionalism about modality claims that a proposition is necessarily true iff it is t...
According to Wittgenstein, mathematical propositions are rules of grammar, that is, conventions, or ...
Hilary Putnam first published the consistency objection against Ludwig Wittgenstein’s account of mat...
Philosophy of science and mainstream epistemology have much to leam from each other. Most twentienth...