We are encouraged to retain a sense of the context and history of objects, but to pay more than usual attention to interpretive inventiveness and formal finesse: in short, to get a sense of the many things that "great" in art based on non-Western models can mean.
The requirement I would have to satisfy illustrates the problem of formalist analysis, analysis that wants to move from the noting of formal properties to the drawing of interpretive conclusions: given that there are only 26 letters (and 21 consonants) in the alphabet, it is inevitable that in a text of any size patterns of repetition and frequency will abound.
Mr. Wetjen, who has called for the agency to complete the plan as "interpretive guidance" rather than a formal rule-making, also advocated so-called substituted compliance.
The direction of my inferences is critical: first the interpretive hypothesis and then the formal pattern, which attains the status of noticeability only because an interpretation already in place is picking it out.
Formal syntactic modeling co-exists with ordinary interpretive practice, in which we ascribe intentional contents to one another's mental states and speech acts.
It has become lab jargon for the phenomenon the authors think is going on, but it is confusing given the various versions of this phenomenon (including its reciprocity), as well as the fact that there should be a formal description of the data, not an interpretive one.
Art is necessarily multi-layered, it is argued, whereas pornography is one-dimensional; it has only one job to do and therefore lacks the formal and structural intricacy, the cognitive complexity, and interpretive openness of art (see, for example, Webb 1975: 6; Mahon 2005: 14; Wallace et al. 2007: 15).
Despite an assumption of a reality which is perhaps less contestable than those of meta-narrative synthesis, critical interpretive synthesis and meta-study, both grounded formal theory and meta-ethnography place a great deal of emphasis on the interpretive nature of their methods.
For example, Barnett-Page and Thomas have identified: meta-narrative, critical interpretive synthesis, meta-study, meta-ethnography, grounded formal theory, thematic synthesis, textual narrative synthesis, framework synthesis and ecological triangulation [ 5].
"Our interpretive specialist was being scrupulous in using the formal name in first references and the 'Forest' in second references in the signs, which were treated as stand-alone texts," Ms. Manning explained in an e-mail.
