conventionalists

Farther away, the conventionalists are a little uneasy: for instance, the editor of the _Monthly Weather Review_, 29-121, says of a red rain that fell near the coast of Newfoundland, early in 1890: "It would be very remarkable if this was Sahara dust."

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

In insisting on an understanding of scientific theories as literally true, the constructive empiricist sides with the scientific realist against conventionalists, logical positivists, and instrumentalists.

Beyond the Voice arlene ang 2009

Such an approach will appeal to conventionalists, but also to those naturalists who are nominalists about natural kinds or otherwise hostile or indifferent to (strong) realism about natural kinds.

Natural Kinds Bird, Alexander 2008

The list starts with a group that includes Mozi (universal, impartial utilitarians), then discusses anti-conventionalists headed by Song Xing, third came Shen Dao's group (metaphysical anti-knowledge stoics), then Laozi and Zhuangzi.

Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

Popper talk a lot about the problem of ‘conventionalists’, the generation of auxillary hypotheses to explain away problems, unfalsifiable theories and so on that we see here.

A new reconstruction of past climate « Climate Audit 2006

The Circle's philosophical influences extend far beyond that of the British empiricists (especially Hume), to include the French conventionalists Henri Poincaré, Pierre Duhem and Abel Rey,

Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

(Another, albeit faint precursor was the idea contained in a 1910 remark of Frank's pointing out the applicability of Hilbert's method of implicit definition to the reconstruction empirical scientific theories as conceived, also along the lines of two distinct languages, by the French conventionalists Rey and Duhem; see Uebel 2003.)

Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

The school, for all the noble dames who presided over it — solemn, inexperienced owl-like conventionalists who insisted on the last tittle and jot of order and procedure — was a joke to Berenice.

The Titan 2004

The charge of seducing women so frequently made against the street-railway magnate, so shocking to the yoked conventionalists, did not disturb him at all.

The Titan 2004

What can be said to transcend convention (with apolo - gies to conventionalists) is the rejection of Newtonian absolute time, with its absolute simultaneity.

RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968