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French mathematician Henri Poincaré was
among the
first to
articulate a
conventionalist view. Poincaré's use of non-Euclidean
geometries in his work on differential...
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process of humiliation. Karl
Popper coined the
concept conventionalist twist or
conventionalist stratagem in
Conjectures and Re****ations with
similar use...
- The
Conventionists were a
faction led by
Pancho Villa and
Emiliano Zapata which grew in
opposition to the
Constitutionalists of
Venustiano Carranza and...
- the fall of
Conventionalist President Eulalio Gutiérrez, he was
chosen by the
Convention as Gutiérrez's replacement. As a
Conventionalist, he was in opposition...
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Convention of Aguascalientes. With
their supporters they
formed the
conventionalist party, in
opposition to the
constitutionalist party of Carranza. Lagos...
- is
usually characterized as "
conventionalist" by Karl
Popper and others.
Sometimes he is
called a "radical
conventionalist" (also
referred to as "critical...
- non-Euclidean. A
conventionalist would say that
Einstein merely found it more
convenient to use non-Euclidean geometry. The
conventionalist would maintain...
- mid-1890s, was a
scientific realist. As such, he
argued against a
conventionalist reading of the
implications of non-Euclidean geometries, suggesting...
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observations that
falsify it. He
argues that the dark
energy hypothesis is a
conventionalist hypothesis, that is, a
hypothesis that adds no
empirical content and...
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philosopher of
science of all time, with Poincaré also
originating the
conventionalist view in science. Poincaré was a
public intellectual in his time, and...
