sentences:  This can be conceptualized and mathematically developed as an ideal point or collection of "approximations".Thus, a community of actors sharing a rule complex recognize a wide variety of varying performances of a given rule as a family of resemblances, or "the same thing.” Both in this sense – and in the sense that social rules are never learned identically and undergo different rates of adaptation and change over time – the concept of rule, and of culture generally, is distributive.– making the patterns understandable and meaningful for those sharing in the rule knowledge.