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Conventional

Derived from or contingent upon the mutual agreement of the parties, as opposed to that created by or dependent upon a statute or other act of the law.

A conventional home mortgage is one in which the interest rate is agreed upon by the parties to it: the borrower and the lender.

HEIR, CONVENTIONAL, civil law. A conventional heir is one who takes a succession by virtue of a contract; for example, a marriage contract, which entitles the heir to the succession.

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In approaching this task, we might begin with the four schools of moral philosophy distinguished earlier: utilitarian, virtue ethics, deontological, and conventionalist. But instead of treating them as competing accounts of morality, each complete in and of itself, we might instead take them as different types of normativity, which are relatively autonomous from one another conceptually but often intertwined in reality.

From Sinks to Webs: Critical Social Science after the Fact-Value Distinction

(9) On such criticism of a conventionalist concept of the meaning of works, see, for instance, Hirsch, Validity in Interpretation 42-3; Tolhurst, "On What a Text Is" 4-5; Stecker, "Apparent, Implied, and Postulated Authors" 261-2; and Levinson, "Intention and Interpretation" 247.

Six ways not to save the implied author

In The Logic of Scientific Discovery, the choice between such aims was left, by Popper, as a matter of decision--just because he saw that it was quite possible for someone to espouse a conventionalist view of knowledge (that is, it could be done without inconsistency), which contrasted with his own preferred approach (which might be called aspirational realism: that science should aim for realist knowledge about the world).

On Barry Hindess, Philosophy and Methodology in the Social Sciences

Originalists might object that original meaning would be a more effective focal point than the permissive conventionalist understanding of the text.

The irrelevance of writtenness in constitutional interpretation

A great deal of the culture of Campus Conventionalist logic is concerned with power.

Black, White, Greek ... like who? Howard University student perceptions of a white fraternity on campus

In sum, I am not persuaded by any of Professor Merrill's normative arguments that we should be conventionalists rather than textualists or originalists in constitutional interpretation.

Text, precedent, and the Constitution: some originalist and normative arguments for overruling Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey

In conventionalist terms, this history illustrates two technologies--one medical and one social--co-evolving.

Nanotechnology, privacy and shifting social conventions

At the outset, it must be conceded that the conventionalists do not explicitly extend their view to the issue of remedies for negligence.

The spurious relationship between moral blameworthiness and liability for negligence

He is too caught up in polemical skirmishes (between conventionalists and anticonventionalists) that are surely of only passing interest.

Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics

When Lovecraft's protagonists recoil from the terrible truths they have stumbled upon, they stand for the affronted conventionalists and religious believers who still balk at the revelations of Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud.

H. P. LOVECRAFT: Prophet of Humanism

To conventionalists like the author, the immediate cause is presumably incompetent experimental technique.

SHOULD GANZFELD RESEARCH CONTINUE TO BE CRUCIAL IN THE SEARCH FOR A REPLICABLE PSI EFFECT? PART II. EDITED GANZFELD DEBATE

I fear that the body-mind is more subtle and complex than we conventionalists were trained to believe.