Sentence examples for class of conventions from inspiring English sources

Drawing on John Searle's (1969) discussion of "constitutive rules," Marmor argues that Lewis has overlooked an important class of conventions, which Marmor calls "constitutive conventions," modeled after the rules of a game.

The term 'lion' does not resemble what it is about; it represents the class of lions by convention.

In an age blessed with technological marvels but with fear in the background, there is an appetite once more for a form open to all-comers, sceptical of conventions of class, capital and gender, and rooted in a conception of human engagement as collaboration rather than transaction.

These and other of the artists' works simultaneously submit to the Surrealist scrutiny of middle class conventions and turn the lens of scrutiny back at the Surrealists for their omissions of bias that betrayed the alleged automatism that was proposed by them to replace conscious choice as the arbiter of Surrealist taste.

It is also a social activity, fueled by the camaraderie of classes, workshops, conventions and retreats — and now the scrapbook cruise.

"Students are like artists, a special class of people less attached to the conventions of the society," he said.

Each is hamstrung not by his mental horizons but by the stultifying hand of convention, class consciousness and the habit of judging every step you take by the yardstick of what other people might think of you.

That focus led one critic to sneer that the dramatist "followed mid-century middle-class man into middle age using the middle-class conventions of the boulevardier to do it".

From the start, his work had to do with class, decorum and conventions of taste.

What kind of conventions are down here?

The 3DEM field requires a consistent set of conventions.