conventional signs

Signs that acquire their function through social custom.

What’s the good of Mercator’s
North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Line?”
So the Bellman would cry;
and the crew would reply:
“They are merely conventional signs!”

— Lewis Carroll: “The Hunting of the Snark”

 

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