-
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...
- 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...
-
Convention of Aguascalientes. With
their supporters they
formed the
conventionalist party, in
opposition to the
constitutionalist party of Carranza. Lagos...
- non-Euclidean. A
conventionalist would say that
Einstein merely found it more
convenient to use non-Euclidean geometry. The
conventionalist would maintain...
-
philosopher of
science of all time, with Poincaré also
originating the
conventionalist view in science. Poincaré was a
public intellectual in his time, and...
- (ed.). Karl
Popper (Winter 2015 ed.). ("Popper
professes to be anti-
conventionalist, and his
commitment to the
correspondence theory of
truth places him...
- mid-1890s, was a
scientific realist. As such, he
argued against a
conventionalist reading of the
implications of non-Euclidean geometries, suggesting...
-
Metaphysics Research Lab,
Stanford University. ("Popper
professes to be anti-
conventionalist, and his
commitment to the
correspondence theory of
truth places him...
- 1914
between the
Constitutionalists (Carranza, Obregón, etc.) and the
Conventionalists (Villa and Zapata)
following the
Convention of Aguascalientes, the...
