"[C]hallenges to positivism were born out of the context of , which has historically set the first main point of the opposition to positivism (or rather, to reductionism). The basic epistemological tenet of conventionalism holds that the laws of science (such as Newtonian mechanics) and the axioms of mathematics (like Euclidean geometry) are not experimental generalizations, neither a priori knowledge, but conventions or linguistic definitions. ...Henri Poincaré is considered the main proponent of conventionalism."
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Alexis Karpouzos, The Self-criticism of Science: The Contemporary Philosophy of Science & the Problem of the Scientific Consciousness (2015)
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