Sentence examples for arbitrary conventions from inspiring English sources

Projections are not neutral, natural or 'given': they are constructed, configured, underpinned by various — and quite arbitrary — conventions.

When we approach language prosaically, our focus is on arbitrary conventions that link words to things in the world and to the contents of thought.

To the question of what limits are imposed on otherwise arbitrary conventions, of what justifies them, Le Roy suggested their convenience in use.

Grice viewed these rules not as arbitrary conventions, but as instances of more general rules governing rational, cooperative behavior.

However, on the negative side, these revised systems suffer from a loss of visual clarity, as seen above, mainly because of the introduction of more arbitrary conventions.

However, such non-coordinated development of software, force fields, and analysis tools for molecular simulations gave rise to an array of software formats and arbitrary conventions for routine preparation and analysis of simulation input and output data.

It is an arbitrary convention that the word is spelt "discrete" when it means separate and "discreet" when it means prudent and unobtrusive.

The fairly arbitrary convention when comparing the various greenhouse gases is to consider their total warming effect (or 'global warming potential') during the century after they were emitted.

2. Note that, however natural this convention may sound, this is still an arbitrary convention.

We use a dashed black line to denote thiscommon boundary in Figure 3C (by arbitrary convention, we colorthe dashed line to match the upper set).

Throughout this paper the secondary axis of the embryo will be called 'dorsoventral' according to a current, arbitrary convention; it should be noted that this axis does not correspond by cell lineage distribution to any definitive anatomical axis (Figure 2A).