Medieval logic did not have quotation mark conventions, which were not regularly used until after the invention of printing, and the theory of material supposition provided a substitute for them.
The quotation about a convention of hangmen is Norman Mailer writing about the 1964 Republican Convention in the November 1964 issue of Esquire.
He famously denies that perceptible qualities other than shape and size (and, perhaps, weight) really exist in the atoms themselves: one direct quotation surviving from Democritus claims that 'by convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void' (DK 68B9, trans. Taylor 1999a).
First, we introduce the yield curve and its construction as well as market conventions for yield quotations.
Its ruling stated: The committee noted the newspaper's position that the use of single quotation marks was a journalistic convention, to denote the paraphrasing of an allegation, and accepted that the meaning of quotation marks can vary according to context, and is therefore open to interpretation.
These phrases were used with both "aging" and "ageing" spelling conventions, put in quotations, and linked via the Boolean operator "OR".
Conventions on TV: In the July 30 Calendar section, the last sentence of a review of television coverage of the Republican and Democratic national conventions was enclosed in quotation marks, giving the impression that the words were said by Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
The use of single quotation marks in the print headline was a journalistic convention, indicating that an allegation had been made.
Lest any utterly dim-witted visitor miss the political moral, the exhibition closed with a quotation from Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the chairman of the convention that drafted the disputed constitution for the EU, urging his listeners to "Dream of Europe.
A famous quotation from Democritus distinguishes between perceived properties like colors and tastes, which exist only 'by convention,' in contrast to the reality, which is atoms and void.
Chapter 9, dealing with the campaign for the election of members of the convention, contains extensive quotations from newspaper communications, and finds its principal significance in the slavery issue.
