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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I I Coordination and Convention | 5 |
II I Convention Refined | 52 |
III I Convention Contrasted | 83 |
IV 1 Convention and Communication | 122 |
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act according actual language affairs agents agreement alternative ambiguity analytic artificial assigns audience audience’s belfry choice choose Column-chooser combination common knowledge communicator’s conditional preference confidence conform on condition conformative behavior contingency plan convention of truthfulness conventional signaling conventions of language coordination equilibrium coordination problem define definition drive figure find finite first fixed flag games of pure given grammar higher-order expectations holds imperative indicates instance Jotto justification lantern is observed Modal Logic mood notation noun phrase 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 replication Row-chooser rules satisfied semantic sentence sentential constituent shown in Figure Shwayder signaling conventions signaling problem signaling system social contract Suppose tion true truth condition verbal expression W. V. Quine warn the countryside