Sentence examples for best construed from inspiring English sources

The "relevant provisions of the law," it states in its brief to the Supreme Court, are "best construed not to authorize regulation... for the purpose of addressing global climate change".

The argument, I suggest, is best construed as an inference to the best explanation.

Several philosophers have argued that gratitude is best construed as a virtue (Meilaender 1984; Wellman 1999b).

Now, it is certainly the case that contradictory utterances that one sometimes hears are best construed in some such way.

Because the programs themselves involve no specific human interference or guidance, the results might be best construed as the intellectual property of those who "worked the machine," i.e. the users.

Thomas Scanlon's contractualism, for example, which posits at its core those norms of action that we can justify to each other, is best construed as an ontological and epistemological account of moral notions.

Others have opted for a more radical stance: Bickle has recently suggested that philosophical theorizing about reduction should best be construed as reconstructing whatever cases scientists judge to be reductions (Bickle 2008).

(Indeed, in Block's 1980b, p. 291, he suggests that qualitative states may best be construed as "composite state[s] whose components are a quale and a [functional state]," and adds, in an endnote (note 22) that the quale "might be identified with a physico-chemical state").

Though it is not plausible to deny the possibility of illusory experiences (though we may argue about how best to construe them; Anthony (2011) and Kalderon (2011)), the claim that subjectively indistinguishable hallucinations are possible is a little more controversial.

Be that as it may, we will do well when considering Aristotle's defense of his four aitia to bear in mind that controversy surrounds how best to construe his knowledge-driven approach to causation and explanation relative to some later approaches.

At least in the areas I saw in Gansu, what the West sees as top-down decision making by government fiat is actually a more complex process, though it still entails sacrificing individual freedom for the collective best interest, however construed.