Inherent and probabilistic naturalness.

Standard accounts hold that regularities of behavior must be arbitrary to constitute a convention. Yet, there is growing consensus that conventionality is a graded phenomenon, and that conventions can be more or less natural. I develop an account of natural conventions that distinguishes two basic d...

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Published in:Philosophical Studies Vol. 181; no. 2/3; pp. 369 - 386
Main Author: Gasparri, Luca
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Mar2024
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