Convention: A Philosophical StudyConvention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. Conventions are contrasted with other kinds of regularity, and conventions governing systems of communication are given special attention. |
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Convention Refined | |
Convention Contrasted | |
Convention and Communication | |
Conventions of Langmage | |
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act according actual language affairs agents agreement ambiguity analyticity assigns audience audience’s belfry choice choose Column-chooser combination common knowledge communicator’s condition T holds conditional preference conformative behavior contingency plan convention of truthfulness conventional signaling conventions of language coordination equilibrium coordination problem drive example finite games of pure given grammar higher-order expectations holda indicative instance Jotto lantern is observed Modal Logic mood notation observed hanging occasions of utterance one’s other’s Paul Revere payoff payoff matrix population possible language possible occasion possible world preference for conformity produce promise Quine reason to believe redcoats are coming redcoats are observed regularity of truthfulness replication Row-chooser rules semantic sensu diviso sentences sentential constituent set of interpretations shown in Figure Shwayder signaling conventions signaling problem signaling system signals in common situation social contract Suppose systematic untruthfulness true truth condition universal quantifications verbal expression W. V. Quine warn the countryside