Lewis's answer to the second question is that a pre-existing convention is so overwhelmingly salient that agents expect one another to abide by it, an expectation which furnishes reason to conform.
Two of the salient Proto-Agent properties, "sentience" and "volition," are taken to be the crucial motivation for the nominative case marking, while the accusative and dative case markings imply a lack of control or a low degree of control on the part of the Experiencer, displaying more Proto-Patient characters as being affected under the direct or indirect force of an external Stimulus.
States corresponded to temporally extended circumstances salient to the agent, such as being located at an arm of a maze or waiting within an interstimulus interval.
The major agent has salient impact on others.
What is difficult to determine is how accurate and representative the salient aspects of the agents are of the travelling public.
These include that the action can be interpreted as efficiently related to an outcome, the presence of a choice or selection on the part of the agent, action variability and salient action effects (for further discussion see Hernik & Southgate, 2012).
Following Thomas Schelling (1960), who introduced the notion of a focal point, Lewis argues that agents will select the salient convention.
Lastly, it was shown that the social appeal (i.e., similarity attraction effect) of a pedagogical agent "seduced" learners away from salient information [46].
Among the distinctive characteristics of the international clones, multidrug resistance to antimicrobial agents is clearly the most salient, as noted early [7], [9], [10].
Islam as a strong agent of social unity is still salient and enduring despite for all the flaws rooted in the nation-state and dividing character of nationalism that dominated the political landscape for much of the republican history. .
