The woman, Inés, is a "blank slate, a virgin slate," upon which Simón can project his private, highly idiosyncratic meaning.
To reiterate, this does not mean that the term is being used incorrectly, but instead it may have a more idiosyncratic meaning.
When this practice occurs in contexts where individual parties are reluctant due to collective action problems to revise boilerplate terms that are given idiosyncratic meaning, the continued use of the terms can lead to a dramatic increase in social costs.
It had not been made clear whether the 'method of verification' was intended to be neutral between people employing the sentences in question, and so provide a standard meaning for these sentences, or whether such a method could provide an idiosyncratic meaning for one individual's use of the sentence, the method of verification being peculiar to that person.
Using the much discussed case of NML v. Argentina, we show how traditional contract doctrine, which uses a model of interpretation that essentially treats all contracts as finely tailored, can produce a fertile setting for the growth of contractual arbitrage in standard form commercial contracting when courts give indeterminate terms idiosyncratic meaning.
It is suggested that the idiosyncratic meaning of the intrusive recollections predicts the distress caused by them, and the degree to which the individual engages in strategies to control the intrusions.
Given the assumption that no one means the same thing by all of their words, the conclusion that meaning is idiosyncratic follows directly from meaning holism.
Polt (1999, 140) comments that "the most important sections of the text can appear to be written in pure Heideggerese… [as Heidegger] exploits the sounds and senses of German in order to create an idiosyncratic symphony of meanings".
It has taken me 40 years to accept Dad just for being his well-meaning, idiosyncratic self, and we are finally enjoying each other's company.
Someone could hold, for example, that meaning, even idiolectal meaning, is essentially normative in the following respect: for the word apple in S's (idiosyncratic) idiolect to mean the set of things that are either apples or pears is for S to somehow endorse using it to pick out anything inside this set and prescribe against using it any other way.
