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  1. The view that a priori truths, logical
  2. axioms, or scientific laws have no absolute
  3. validity but are disguised conventions
  4. representing one of a number of possible
  5. alternatives. The French philosopher and
  6. mathematician Jules Henri Poincare introduced
  7. this position into philosophy of science.
  8.