Broyard's friend Richard A. Shweder, an anthropologist and a theorist of culture, says, "I think he believed that reality is constituted by style," and ascribes to Broyard a "deeply romantic view of the intimate connection between style and reality".
To begin with, (a) P2 entails Q2; (b) s's justification for believing P2 is constituted by s's direct perception that P2, which is subjectively indistinguishable from the state s would be in if it were true that (R) the girl is Jocelyn; (c) R is incompatible with P2; and, trivially, (d) if Q2 were false R would be true.
Some personalists are idealists, believing that reality is constituted by consciousness, while others claim to be realist philosophers and argue that the natural order is created by God independently of human consciousness.
Objective naturalists believe that meaning is constituted (at least in part) by something physical independent of the mind about which we can have correct or incorrect beliefs.
The Catholic Church believes that it was constituted -- that it was given a distinctive form -- by the will of Christ himself.
Christians are believed to have constituted about 30% of the Syrian population as recently as the 1920s.
Judgment sentimentalists believe that moral judgments are constituted by emotional or non-cognitive responses, at least in part, or alternatively are judgments about emotional responses or the tendency of something to give rise to them.
It seems worth noting in this context that something similar to Vasubandhu's option just may be the only option available for a modern physicalist who believes that human minds are constituted by, or out of, neurons.
The evidence E8 in Moore is constituted by a proposition believed by s.
Carefully shaped round stone balls, believed to have been used as bola weights in hunting, constitute part of the Fauresmith assemblage.
