Ms Loebl does not conceal the conventionalism of Junior, the megalomaniac tendencies of Nelson, or the feuds between the brothers in the third generation.She does, however, leave many intriguing and important questions disappointingly unaddressed.
Conventionalism often entrains relativism.
Alan Sidelle (1989) advocates conventionalism about necessary truth.
Later, however, Schlick criticized generalized conventionalism in his reprinted and widely-read article of 1935 "Are Natural Laws Conventions?" Reichenbach took up geometric conventionalism in his Philosophy of Space and Time (1928) and Carnap generalized conventions, taking them to be the adoption of a formal language of science.
Poincaré's epistemological thesis that all statements depend, at least partially, on a conventional conceptual framework is generalized in Kasimir Ajdukiewicz's radical conventionalism (Ajdukiewicz 1978) and is related to the Quinean notion that there are logically incompatible but empirically equivalent theories (Quine 1990: chap. 41).
Adolf Grünbaum (1968) defended geometric conventionalism, albeit with his own unique arguments rather than Poincaré's, and critics of Grünbaum and of conventionalism generally could not help but direct some of their attention to Poincaré who was rightly seen as the preeminent precursor to all further work on geometric conventionalism.
The two traditions interpreting Poincaré's work thus reflect, on the one hand, a philosophy of mathematics that endorses his intuitionist tendency and his polemics against logicism or formalism, and, on the other hand, his conventionalism both in the philosophy of science and in a broad linguistic sense.
Einstein's own philosophy of science is an original synthesis of elements drawn from sources as diverse as neo-Kantianism, conventionalism, and logical empiricism, its distinctive feature being its novel blending of realism with a holist, underdeterminationist form of conventionalism.
This particular argument for metric conventionalism has generated substantial controversy on its own, but is better understood through an account of its genesis in Reichenbach's early neo-Kantianism.
Note that standardization by itself does not imply any kind of operationalism or conventionalism.
Moreover, on closer examination, his slogan, 'Justice is nothing other than the advantage of the rulers', does not really look like conventionalism after all.
