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- adjective according to custom or rule or natural law
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Examples
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Along with Jerome Bruner who helped foment the cognitive revolution and brough meaning back into experimental psychology, Kahneman & Tversky brought back the idea of rule-governed complex irrationality.
Forbes.com: News Todd Essig 2011
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And the Commission's ambition to create a credible, transparent and rule-governed system for imposing losses on creditors of a failing or failed bank without disrupting the larger financial system is vital to reducing moral hazard.
Banking on Failure 2011
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They would be more rule-governed and probably count that as a virtue. [emphasis added]
Flynn on the Flynn Effect, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It was not until the middle of the 20th century, however, that it became common to speculate that thinking may be nothing more than rule-governed computation that can be carried out by creatures of various physical types.
Functionalism Levin, Janet 2009
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I think you could more accurately call it a "Rule-of-Law Tax": the costs imposed by enforcement of, compliance with, and rule-governed testing of regulations i.e., laws.
Housing and the Corruption Tax, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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(PI 243), is not a genuine, meaningful, rule-governed language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Biletzki, Anat 2009
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Ritual speech and behaviour is rule-governed, habitual, repetitive and formulaic behaviour.
An address by the Archbishop of Canterbury given to a meeting of the Alcuin Club at Lambeth Palace 2009
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Meaning statements, such as “˜Green™ means green”, Millar argues, are true in virtue of there being a rule-governed practice.
The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009
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The conventional approach places great weight on the rule-governed nature of promising.
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Atomic Energy Agency be prominent in advancing a rule-governed approach to these matters.
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