According to the received tradition, the language used to to refer to natural kinds in scientific discourse remains stable even as theories about these kinds are refined.
Postmodern theorists, promoting a fluid sense of identity, were only the latest step in unhinging art and discourse from any stable sense of the real world.
However, we show that words are typically less bursty than other human activities [26] due to their logicality or permutability [27], [28], technical constructs of formal semantics that index the extent to which the meanings and usage of words are stable over changes in the discourse context.
This means that the structure of the discourse is very likely to remain approximately stable as shown in the sixth diagram for an unlimited time.
They furthermore demonstrate that discourses about risk management are far from stable or uniform among this group of professionals.
The article identifies a century-long "crisis of infinity" during which the concept of infinity lacked a stable mathematical definition and, for that reason among others, generated heated discussion within the discourses of religion, philosophy, mathematics, and aesthetics.
While interpretation starts within each story, it is not devoid of context but rather strives to "make sense of personal experience in relation to cultural discourses a window to the contradictory and shifting nature of hegemonic discourses, which we tend to take for granted as stable, monolithic forces" [ 32].
He spoke without irony of "sound governance" to keep the country on a stable course -- a far cry from the partisan bile which poisons today's political discourse and reduces governance to spasms of fits and starts.
It is no surprise that even though we're one of the most stable societies in the world and one of its most uncorrupt, we feel massively disconnected from the discourse of those we elect.
Another understanding, prevalent in European policy discourse of recent decades, has shifted responsibility towards ensuring specific social relationships, such as a free market, a stable and competitive economy, and civic subsidiarity.
