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Conventionality and Reality [PDF]

open access: yesFoundations of Physics, 2019
The debate on the conventionality of simultaneity and the debate on the dimensionality of the world have been central in the philosophy of special relativity. The link between both debates however has rarely been explored. The purpose of this paper is to gauge what implications the former debate has for the latter.
Pieter Thyssen
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Metaphor Aptness and Conventionality: A Processing Fluency Account

open access: yesMetaphor and Symbol, 2011
Conventionality and aptness are two dimensions of metaphorical sentences thought to play an important role in determining how quick and easy it is to process a metaphor.
Paul H Thibodeau, Frank H Durgin
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Naltrexone and Conventionality

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1978
This study examines the effect of conventionality on whether patients who were scheduled for naltrexone took it, and on treatment outcomes for patients who did take it. It is based on admission and case record data for 147 male opiate addicts who enrolled in New York Medical College's Multitrack Abstinence Program. Naltrexone-taking is examined against
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Conventionalized cognition conventionalizes cognition

2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, 2009
Language may be viewed as a system of conventionalized cognition in the sense that it conventionally conceptualizes a range of perceived realities shared by a community of speakers. In this talk, I focus on how language, and Chinese in particular, conventionalizes cognition in order to contribute to a macro-theory of cognitive informatics.
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Reichenbach and Conventionalism

Synthese, 1977
One major theme in the philosophy of Hans Reichenbach concerns the presence of elements of convention in human knowledge. The distinction between fact and convention is held to be essential for epistemology and for the philosophy of science (Reichenbach, 1938, Section 1).
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POPPER’S CONVENTIONALISM

2010
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Conventionalism

2006
The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root both of necessary truths and much of empirical science reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. This 2006 book provides a comprehensive study of Conventionalism.
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Conventionalization

1996
Abstract I have just shown that a dominant characteristic of CAR texts is their minimal level of syntactic elaboration, a feature that the register shares with other simple varieties such as pidgins, for example. Given that this characteristic is widespread in many simple varieties of language, it is tempting to follow Ferguson (1982)
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Conventionalism

The Handbook of Economic Methodology is a major multidisciplinary reference work on the developing field of economic methodology.
Jonathan Livingstone-Banks, Alan Sidelle
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