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Follow

To conform to, comply with, or be fixed or determined by; as in the expression "costs follow the event of the suit." To go, proceed, or come after. To seek to obtain; to accept as authority, as in adhering to precedent.

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As mentioned previously, Shimanoff (1980) defines a rule as "a followable prescription that indicates what behavior is obligated, preferred, or prohibited in certain contexts" (p.

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The nature of norms dictates that they must be consciously followable, even if not consciously followed on any one occasion.

Pragmatic believing and its explanation

How is a sequence of images made into a followable narrative?

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(Yet curiously enough - especially curious after the trilogy and its conclusion in The Unnamable - there is in Company something to express: the series of bygones, sixteen (?) in number, of which the voice speaks and which constitute a coherent, followable life story.