The normal practice is to apply established principles to new problems so as to extend the range of phenomena that can be understood in some detail in terms of accepted fundamental ideas.
In the United Kingdom and, to a lesser extent, in all other industrial nations, a closed-shop provision is seldom found in a written contract, but it is understood in some industries that union members will walk off the job before they will work alongside nonunionists.
Thus, for Lewis's reductionist claim about modality to be genuinely informative, it must be understood in some other way.
We see this as contributing to the bio-objectification of populations, which can also be understood in some respects as a form of population branding (Tupasela 2012).
If their semantics is to be understood in some other way, its nature and purpose need significant clarification and, where appropriate, modification.
But suppose the "some" Armstrong and Bigelow employ is understood not as an objectual quantifier that comes equipped with a domain of entities over which it ranges but is understood in some other way.
For the moment, one might note that Broad could argue that McTaggart's (A1) seems plausible if the copula is understood in some tenseless fashion, whereas (A2) is plausible if the copula is tensed.
McFee points out that dance criticism can be formal or informal, but that criticism properly understood must lead to an interpretation of a particular dance work of art that can be understood in some demonstrable sense in terms of its history, context and in terms of its relevant techniques.
However, it's not clear that we have to think of actions as being in our power in order to be motivated to deliberate; the thought that our actions are 'up to us', a thought which is undeniably involved in deliberation, might be understood in some way which does not presuppose power.
First of all the questions has to be understood in some context.
