Conventions in Poincaré's and Schlick's sense are underdetermined by any empiricalfact, whereas Reichenbach's principles are constrained by the physical theory they constitute, making them partially answerable to experience.
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(as used in philosophy of mathematics and geometry)
A famous French mathematician and philosopher (1854-1912) who argued that the rules of geometry are human conventions we choose, not absolute truths about the world.
Reichenbach, Hans(the statement refers to his principle about causation)
A 20th-century philosopher and physicist who developed ideas about how we can prove that one thing actually caused another, especially when we only observe them happening together.
Schlick, Moritz(as a philosopher of science)
An Austrian philosopher (1882-1936) who studied how our definitions and measurements in science are often matters of choice rather than things nature forces upon us.
Underdetermined by empirical fact(as contrasted with being 'constrained by' facts)
When the real-world evidence doesn't uniquely determine one answer, leaving multiple valid choices open; the facts alone can't tell you which convention to pick.