The phrase "are construed in terms of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something is interpreted or understood within a specific framework or context.
Example: "The results of the study are construed in terms of their implications for public policy."
Alternatives: "are interpreted in relation to" or "are understood in the context of".
Second, in a judgment call, the question of authorship should be construed in terms of the relative contribution of the various persons to the final publishable product.
The ascription of a desire is usually construed as the ascription of a representational mental state, whereas a drive can be construed in terms of more basic mechanisms (and without the ascription of representational content).
For more discussion of the issue of intermediaries in cognition in medieval philosophy, especially in Aquinas, its relation to skepticism, and whether it should be construed in terms of the modern "direct realist" vs. "representationalist" distinction, see Klima 1996b.
Prima facie, his characterizations imply a justified belief analysis of knowledge — or in language closer to his own (and where justification is construed in terms of unshakability), an unshakable conviction analysis.
It has also been suggested that the normativity of belief should be construed in terms of 'role oughts', and that these are not subject to the principle that ought implies can (Chrisman forthcoming, Feldman 2001).
In order for the process of abstraction to be construed in terms of mere omission in this case, all relevant information for the study of language must be present at the most concrete level, and each subsequent move in abstraction would reduce the amount of information in an incremental matter, with the only retained information being kept in each case.
On this view, actions are events, and an event is an action just in case it has the right agent-causal history.[13] This framework provides a non-reductive account of agency insofar as it holds that an agent's role in the exercise of agency is to be construed in terms of the exercise of an irreducible agent-causal power (Chisholm 1964; Taylor 1966; O'Connor 2000; see also Clarke 2003; Lowe 2008).
Gratitude is not to be construed in terms of merely the obligation to repay a debt, as the ideology of capitalism tends to suggest.
