Assertion: conventional truth | /r/AtLocation | open
Facets:
value: for refutation
type: PURPOSE
value: tacitly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Later Quine (especially 1954) criticized Carnap's conventionalist view, largely on the grounds that there seems to be no non-vague distinction between conventional truths and truths that are tacitly left open for refutation, and that to the extent that some truths are the product of convention or “tacit agreement”, such agreement is characteristic of many scientific hypotheses and other postulations that seem paradigmatically non-analytic.