The Supreme Court has ruled that limits on commercial speech must be narrowly construed and directly advance a substantial government interest.
While Borgmann and Dreyfus were primarily responding to the immediate precursors of Web 2.0 social networks (e.g., chat rooms, newsgroups, online gaming and email), their conclusions, which aim at online sociality broadly construed, are directly relevant to SNS.
Limits on free speech in the commercial world must be narrowly construed and directly advance a substantial government interest.
Although I have tried not to, my analysis so far has possibly already gone beyond those contextual features that are directly found in the language of the text, but generally, I believe the analysis and interpretation have focused on what is directly construed by the language of the text.
Carnap argued that the observational statements by reference to which empirical statements can be tested may be construed as sentences describing directly and publicly observable aspects of physical objects, such as the needle of a measuring instrument turning to a particular point on the scale or a subject in a psychological test showing a change in pulse rate.
Though students were assured this would not be graded and all identifiers removed, participants may have been hesitant to share feedback in front of the group, particularly if their insights could be construed as negative or involving team members directly.
Indeed, given that here S is a hidden, not directly observable variable, it can be construed as either a measure of constraint (negatively correlated with R) or as a measure of robustness to mutational and translational errors (positively correlated with R).
In that case, ontological commitment applies directly to the propositions, or to theories construed as sets of propositions, and only indirectly to the sentences, or sets of sentences, that express those propositions.
They settle on the idea that unmotivated actions are to be minimized, where an action ("actions" construed generally enough to include any change) can be motivated directly, e.g. by an axiom, or indirectly, through chains of motivations.
A theorist who denies that we are aware of mind-independent objects at all, directly or indirectly, but only of sense-data construed as mental entities, is known as a phenomenalist or an idealist about perception (see Foster (2000) for a recent defence, see Crane and Farkas (2004: Section 2) for an introduction to the subject; and the entry on idealism).
