Sentence examples for sets of conventions from inspiring English sources

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.

However, at another level the dispute is not merely verbal, since what we are calling "institutions" would on such a view consist simply of sets of conventions, social norms or rules.

Once the hallmarks of radical modernism, these features quickly harden into a new set of conventions.

Like a sonnet or an aria, a mathematical proof has a distinct form and set of conventions.

HTTP is the protocol (agreed set of conventions) that normally regulates conversations between your web browser and a web server.

Without a set of conventions to guide them, and the audience, the scary films of the 1920s are all the more disturbing.

Now that term conjures up a fairly precise set of conventions (Zooey Deschanel, one character who reads a lot, an iPod-friendly soundtrack... )...

Not in every particular, perhaps -- there are some fine, jolting surprises along the way -- but "Panic Room" operates within a strict and narrow set of conventions.

Horobin encourages us to remember that "our standard spelling is just an arbitrary set of conventions which were only fully codified in the 19th century".

"New Amerykah" isn't political or social in the sense that the lyrics are specific complaints, or that Badu is concerned with a particular set of conventions.

While Ms. Lum means to challenge stereotypes about cross-cultural romance and sexuality, her portrayal of Sandy often seems to echo a set of conventions about Asian women involving stubbornness, jealousy and manipulation.