Hence, according to the Hamming bound, for d = N = 30 the upper bound on the number of discriminable stimuli is 4561, and we know the correct answer to be 1 (or 4, depending on conventions, see the Supplemental Materials).
Artificial virtues depend on convention, contrivance, or rule-following (T 528).
If it is, then in this special sense, truth value depends on meaning, and that depends on convention.
Rousseau proposes need as the cause of the development of language, but since language depends on convention to assign arbitrary signs to objects, he puzzles about how it could ever get started and how primitive people could accomplish the feat of giving names to universals.
Playacting depends on conventions, which must be understood in their historical context.
But a perception of happiness leaves a strong trace on the balance sheets of cities that depend on conventions, tourism and an influx of talent.
This can be thrilling or galling, depending on the convention in town.
We have seen that in LTL Ayer maintained that all necessary truths were true in virtue of the meanings of the terms used in expressing them, this in turn depending on the conventions governing the use of those terms.
Algal samples are characterized depending on the conventions for that particular lineage, usually including microscopic and molecular characterization, and sometimes culturing studies.
Genes can be missing from the annotation of some strains and present in others; their start codon positions can vary widely, yielding genes with apparently different lengths; genes can be labeled as pseudogenes or not, depending on the conventions used by the original annotators; and genes can be annotated on the wrong strand or the wrong reading frame.
