But it wasn't a mere set of trading and institutional arrangements either.
Scored for flute, clarinet, two vibraphones, two pianos, string quartet and electric bass, this is no mere set of variations.
In this film, as in all of Lanzmann's works, the past is no mere set of inert facts; there's no easy access to the past.
The composer Dennis DeSantis, for instance, in a manifesto on notation, writes: In this view, the score is essentially a mere set of instructions with no intrinsic artistic merit.
Law is not law unless it is enforceable, & the "law" of warfar are in their very nature unenvordeable, being a mere set of rules for quarrelling.
Thus, the Enuma elish, the Babylonian creation epic, was discovered to be no mere set of stories but rather a mythic drama re-enacted every year at the spring festival, at which time the foundation of the world is ritually renewed.
Accordingly, a mere set of conventions (or norms or rules) does not constitute an institution.
It is well known that the efficiency scores suggested by classical DEA models cannot fully discriminate efficient units, and inefficient units are evaluated by a mere set of optimal weights in a self-appraisal approach.
At the outset, spacetime is a mere set of events, without any further structure.
When identity is objectively allotted on the basis of religion then it becomes much more than mere set of beliefs.
