When Friedrich Uhl offered his daughter "the vision of what it meant to be a man," he dislodged Frida from the fixed conventions of the middle class, and though Frida "opted for the male role," she was "not adequately prepared for the life she sought, nor was she encouraged".
His view at this time is that arbitrariness prevails within human experience: concepts originate via the transformation of nerve stimuli into images, and "truth" is nothing more than the invention of fixed conventions for practical purposes, especially those of repose, security and consistency.
However, the need to write customized code will inevitably arise in many projects, and then, HTSeq aims to offer advantages over more narrow programming libraries that focus on specific file formats, e.g. PySam and Picard (http://picard.sourceforge.net/) for SAM/BAM files, by integrating parsers for many common file formats and fixing conventions for data interchange between them.
"Maps are never completely neutral, and in many ways their points of view are somewhat arbitrary," David Rumsey, the San Francisco-based collector of historical maps, has written, "even if fixed in conventions we take for granted".
The most well-worked out views on this topic are the Gricean view, which explains meaning in terms of the communicative intentions of language users, and the view that the meanings of expressions are fixed by conventions which pair sentences with certain beliefs.
Briefly, Gödel argues that Carnap can treat arithmetic as fixed by convention only if he shows that the relevant convention does not generate a contradiction.
No member of the House of Lords had been prime minister since the time of Lord Salisbury's last administration (1895-1902), and Sir Alec's career must have fixed the convention that the prime minister must always be a member of the House of Commons.
Of course, word meanings may themselves be fixed by convention.
On the one hand, expressions have a standing meaning fixed by convention and known to those who are linguistically competent.
If your commonsense understanding of 'water' is governed by the proposed reference-fixing convention, it would lead you to identify different chemical substances as water depending on what your actual environment is like: if your actual environment is like Earth, then water is H2O; but if your actual environment is like Twin earth, then water is XYZ.
After recording his first album in the kitchen of the folklorist Bill Leader in 1965, he quickly carved out a niche as the romantic, troubled loner of the acoustic world, living without fixed address or conventions.
