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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

I try to think of some conventional ones.†
Part 1 *

conventional = normal or typical

"It's an unconventional concept," I say, "but conventional reason bears it out.†
Part 2

unconventional = not regarded as normal

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconventional means not and reverses the meaning of conventional. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.

"It's an unconventional concept," I say, "but conventional reason bears it out.†
Part 2

conventional = normal or typical

But what's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating widespread feelings of topsy-turviness.†
Part 2

Poincaré then went on to demonstrate the conventional nature of other concepts of science, such as space and time, showing that there isn't one way of measuring these entities that is more true than another; that which is generally adopted is only more convenient.†
Part 3

They presumed that "preselected facts" meant that truth is "whatever you like" and called his ideas conventionalism.†
Part 3

For the most part these data are properly handled by conventional dualistic logic and the scientific method talked about earlier, back just after Miles City.†
Part 3

conventional = normal or typical

Poincaré concluded that the axioms of geometry are conventions, our choice among all possible conventions is guided by experimental facts, but it remains free and is limited only by the necessity of avoiding all contradiction.†
Part 3

Poincaré concluded that the axioms of geometry are conventions, our choice among all possible conventions is guided by experimental facts, but it remains free and is limited only by the necessity of avoiding all contradiction.†
Part 3

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(1) (convention as in: teacher's convention)
a large conference or meeting
(2) (convention as in: conventional behavior)
something regarded as normal or typical
(3) (convention as in: The Geneva Convention)
a written international agreement