Sentence examples for terms of conventions from inspiring English sources

Various theories have been proposed in answer to these questions, the most popular being that the forms of art are similar to language and are to be understood as language is understood, in terms of conventions and semantic rules.

For this reason, many proponents of a mentalist analysis of meaning in terms of belief have sought instead to analyze meaning in terms of conventions governing such regularities.

More recently, the focus has been less on the conventional nature of language than on the claim that meaning is essentially normative in a wider sense, leaving it open whether the normativity in question should be understood in terms of conventions or not (Kripke 1982).

His Pulitzer winner, "Lincoln at Gettysburg," brilliantly analyzed Lincoln's greatest speech in terms of the conventions of ancient Greek funeral orations, and he has also translated the Latin of St. Augustine's "Confessions".

Several modern directors (most notably Godard) have been influenced by the visual boldness of comic-strip art by the primary colors, unfurnished environments, and crisp, posterish sophistication — and the Pop artists who did blowups of comic-strip frames made us conscious of the formal intelligence in those cartoons, but "Superman" hasn't been designed in terms of the conventions of Pop.

Yet this explanation is afforded strictly in the terms of worldly conventions.

(1983: 14 15ff, cited in Tsongkhapa 1992: 312, Khedrub Jé 1992: 360) For Gelug the crucial point here, as Candrakīrti emphasizes, is that nirvāṇa is the truth strictly in terms of worldly conventions.

where "language \(L\) is used by population \(G\)" is explicated in terms of Lewisian convention, as described in section 7.1, Conventional theories of meaning.

Under the terms of the convention, no person age 18 years or older is immune from prosecution, including presidents or heads of state.

Last year, 10,000 applicants were found to be refugees and about 11,000 did not satisfy the terms of the convention but were, nonetheless, allowed to stay.

Under the terms of the convention, Kandy was annexed to the other British holdings in Ceylon, giving Britain complete control over the island.