Accordingly, most writers on the semantics of quantity-terms have avoided espousing an operational analysis.[11] A more widely advocated approach admitted a conventional element to the use of quantity-terms, while resisting attempts to reduce the meaning of quantity terms to measurement operations.
Sarkar and Margules (2002) discuss the role of biodiversity surrogates, arguing that even the relative concept of complementarity has a "conventional" element built into it because it relies on "estimator" surrogates (say, a set of butterfly species) for "true" surrogates (say, the use of species as the basis for assessing complementarity of places).
Because she swam without stockings in 1919, she was given a summons for "nude swimming"; the subsequent public support for Bleibtrey led to the abandonment of stockings as a conventional element in women's swimwear.
The third conventional element of a YAC, autonomous replication sequences, has not been identified in Plasmodium.
In Scratch, the programs are created by connecting blocks, containing conventional elements of a programming language, such as assignments, input / output statements, branching and looping constructions.
Human speech is minimal, as are conventional elements of cinematic storytelling.
In the latter, his greatest achievement, the conventional elements of farce are transformed into satiric epigrams seemingly trivial but mercilessly exposing Victorian hypocrisies.
These claims eventually become conventional elements of Chan identity.
Disappointingly, though, while the nomenclature is often changed from child "poverty" to child "wellbeing", this shift usually turns out to be nominal, with the definition of "wellbeing" still limited essentially to the conventional elements of basic needs, viz., nutrition, water, housing, education, health, electricity.
This cutoff point, he thinks, can only be specified as a matter of convention, but this conventional element does not threaten the objectivity of diagnoses.
