Rudolf Carnap, one of the leading positivists, responded to difficulties facing his earlier views by developing a sophisticated position according to which philosophers could (and should) articulate alternative sets of conventions for associating sentences of a language with propositions.
For example, the set of conventions comprising the convention to drive on the left, the convention to utter, "Australia", to refer to Australia, and the convention to use chopsticks does not constitute an institution.
Nevertheless, such interdependence of action is not sufficient for a convention, norm or rule, or even a set of conventions, norms or rules, to be an institution.
The Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta clearly set out to create an art movie with "The Double Steps," a self-conscious exercise set in Africa, largely by swapping one set of cinematic conventions for another.
The 3DEM field requires a consistent set of conventions.
Once the hallmarks of radical modernism, these features quickly harden into a new set of conventions.
An additional set of conventions and dictionaries are used to support scientific units.
In Case A distinct sub-sets of conventions were signed (e.g., for the blood centre, and cardiology rehabilitation), and the total volume of agreed activities agreed sharply increased, moving from 7 million € in 2004 to 21 million € in 2008.
