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Conservatism is a set of political philosophies that favour tradition.
Conservatism or conservative may also refer to:
Linguistic conservatism , a language form that has changed relatively little over its history
Conservatism (belief revision) , a cognitive bias in Bayesian belief revision
Conservative interval, a confidence interval whose actual
coverage probability is greater than a desired nominal coverage probability
Conservatism (diving) , a risk averse approach to decompression practice
Convention of conservatism , a policy in accounting of anticipating possible future losses but not future gains
Epistemic conservatism , a view about the structure of reasons or justification for belief
Conservative force , a physical force whose work is path-independent
Conservative vector field , a vector field that is the gradient of some function
The Conservative , an American weekly journal published from 1898 to 1902
Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition , a 2017 book by Roger Scruton
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Topics referred to by the same term