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Work in Progress Seminar with Cailin O’Connor
Work in Progress Seminar with Cailin O’Connor
Join Cailin O'Connor for a work in progress seminar focused on her paper, Measuring Conventionality. ABSTRACT Conventions are usually treated as univocal, but I argue here that they are better thought of as coming in degrees of arbitrariness. In doing so, I use information theory to measure the degree to which a convention could have been [...]