Sentence examples for construe the relation from inspiring English sources

How should we construe the relation between agents and actions?

The error objection does not turn on the fact that the dispositionalist cannot allow for semantic oughts but, rather, on the fact that we must not construe the relation between the meaning determining facts and meaning in such a way that mistake is ruled out.

Verbal words are: (i) lexical verbs (including adjectives, which in Chinese are a kind of verb, not a kind of noun as in English); (ii) modal auxiliary verbs, which construe the likelihood and the desirability of the process; (iii) postpositive verbs, which show phases of the process, and (iv) prepositive verbs, which construe the relation between the process and some particular entity.

One may invoke a theory — a theory of temporal parts, for example — that construes the relation as a certain kind of similarity, but that is theory, not pretheoretical intuition.

This indicates that Berkeleyan and Leibnizian idealist views can be construed as conceptions of the relation between space and intuition.

Such a philosopher, according to Marty, is Husserl, who allegedly construes intentionality in terms of the relation of sign to signified object and thereby falls into an unacceptable semanticism (Semantizismus) (Marty 1908a: 762; for a discussion of Marty and Husserl, see Rollinger 1999: 209-244).

Given that non-reductivists construe the nature of paradigmatic relations as sui generis, it is not surprising that they feel the need to resort to metaphors to describe it.

Is it the relation of consequence, construed as an abstract entity?

In the latter case, there remain questions about how to construe the soul's creation in relation to God's activity (mediated in traducianism, direct in creationism) as well as about how at home the soul is in the realm of nature.

Both of these inferences depend on causal relations that are, according to the phenomenalist, unknowable, because we cannot experience both sides, or in the second case even one side, of the relation; and thus neither inference, construed in that way, is justified according to the basic phenomenalist outlook.

He isn't a pantheist because the relation between God and the world is construed as a relation between a creative volition and its immediate effects.