Sentence examples for construed as a relation from inspiring English sources
Reference, construed as a relation between bits of language and bits of reality, is assumed to be a genuine, substantive relation worthy of philosophical scrutiny.
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.
Further, if propositions are sets of possible worlds, belief is construed as a relation between individuals and propositions and sentences of the form 'A believes that P' assert that the individual A stands in the belief relation to the proposition expressed by 'P', then for any necessarily equivalent sentences 'P' and 'Q', 'A believes that P' and 'A believes that Q' cannot differ in truth value.
For example, the problem would dissolve immediately if the variables in (28) were taken to range over four-dimensional entities whose parts may extend in time as well as in space (Heller 1984, Lewis 1986b, Sider 2001), or if identity itself were construed as a contingent relation that may hold at some times or worlds but not at others (Gibbard 1975, Myro 1985, Gallois 1998).
Most of the rest of the book is a restatement of the Axiomatization with more extended examples and fewer proofs, and explicitly construed as a reduction of space time relations to causal relations supplemented with definitions.
Before Wellington was elected to the Hall in 1997, he ordered the Giants' public relations director not to do anything that could be construed as a campaign for him.
Nevertheless, this adaptability may also be construed as a disadvantage.
