On some assumptions concerning closure and supervenience, supervenience physicalism (construed as a necessary truth) entails type physicalism; on other assumptions, it doesn't.
For example, pretty much everyone agrees that any decent metaethical theory should be able to explain the close connection between moral judgment and motivation but it is a live question whether that connection should be construed as a necessary one, or whether a reliably contingent connection will suffice.
(Innovation less related to the healthcare provision) Within certain professional groups, almost notably clinicians, "hard" evidence which would be obtained from scientific methods was construed as the necessary prerequisite for the demonstration of the innovation impact, without which any persuasive effort was doomed to failure.
As Westlund (2009) points out, however, most traditional accounts are compatible with the feminist emphasis on interpersonal relationships as long as relationships and dependence on others are construed as being causally necessary for the development and sustenance of an individual agent.
Thus, the fact that in our experiment the avatar always faced the object could be construed as a both necessary and sufficient condition for the recruitment of the participant's motor representation relative to the affording feature of the presented object.
Rarely have I read an interpretation as strange as Graham Fuller's assertion that "Unforgiven" may "certainly be construed as a justification of necessary violence" ["Sending Out a Search Party for the Western," March 5].
A LTHOUGH "Unforgiven" was probably not intended as an allegory of America's righteous war against Saddam Hussein in 1991, it may certainly be construed as a justification of necessary violence, however elegiacally framed.
"Women have fought to undo patriarchal notions of gentle femininity, but, in the criminal-justice system, they may still be construed as lacking in the moral and physical agency necessary to carry out a violent crime". Read more.
"Women have fought to undo patriarchal notions of gentle femininity, but, in the criminal-justice system, they may still be construed as lacking in the moral and physical agency necessary to carry out a violent crime".
(d) The authorization for tests embodied in this section shall not be construed as constituting a license to operate but as a necessary part of construction.
