If convention cannot self-interpret its own application, the descriptive power attributed to number-naming conventions is itself underdetermined and cannot ground naturalist conclusions.
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The ability of a system or rule to explain its own meaning and how it should be used without needing outside help.
application(Goodman's pluralist account of literary interpretation in Reconceptions)
An interpretation of a literary text; one of potentially many correct interpretations a text may yield.
convention(Used to distinguish mere regularities from convention-governed regularities in the analysis of meaning.)
A regularity that obtains because there is something akin to an agreement among a group of people to keep the regularity in place.
underdetermined(Used to contrast mathematical conjectures, whose correct answers are fixed by logical facts, with cases where no such determination exists.)
A decision or truth is underdetermined when logical facts alone do not fix a single correct answer.