Assertion: convention | /r/HasProperty | arbitrary
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text: By classifying \(R\) as a convention only if there is some alternative regularity \(R'\) that could serve as a convention, Lewis codifies the intuitive idea that conventions are arbitrary.
text: While Burge agrees with Lewis that conventions are arbitrary, he thinks that “the arbitrariness of conventions resides somehow in the ‘logic of the situation’ rather than in the participants’ psychological life