Models of the evolution of conventions have in one case been extended to apply to meaning conventions.
Skyrms (1996, chapter 5) gave an evolutionary interpretation of David Lewis' (1969) model of rational selection of meaning conventions.
It is significant that the structure of the model and the selective process by which meaning conventions emerge and are stabilized largely parallels the account of the evolution of meaning given by Ruth Millikan (1984).
Ockham, however, tends to see mental propositions as logically ideal or, in modern parlance, 'canonical'.[8] The problem with spoken and written propositions is that because they depend on the meaning conventions of fallible users, they fail to be universal and logically perspicuous.
A language is a system of signs having meaning by convention.
The building hosting the G20 is the world's first and largest LEED-certified (meaning green) convention centre and sits on the city's former red-light district.
It is distinctive of languages that linguistic units possess meaning by convention, and linguistic meaning is very different from what is called natural meaning, exemplified in statements such as "Those clouds mean rain" and "The fall in pressure means the valve is malfunctioning".
The applicants asked the court to interpret the text of article 12 ECHR in the light of present-day conditions, an interpretation method which the court has often used in the past to give a new or extended meaning to convention provisions.
Much of that discussion has been carried out without reference to the earlier debate on meaning and conventions, but attempts have also been made to relate the two debates.
But the system network has other resources for making descriptive meanings; its conventions – the lines, arrows, brackets, and braces whose arrangements constitute the material appearance of the sys-net – express meanings, since they stand for the relations of the descriptive categories.
In a given context, the question that needs to be answered is: are we confronted with a case in which the meaning of the convention condemns a token action that does not contain the original consequence that gave meaning to the convention, viz. the reduction of the adequacy of valuable options, or simply with an exception to the convention.
