But these arguments can be reasonably easily turned on their head, and precisely the same properties construed as consistent with, if not indicative of, a regulatory role.
Suppose that every psychological fact somehow involves something with intentional inexistence (however precisely this is to be construed).
And, in fact, the major religious traditions have (if only implicitly) construed the object of their devotion in precisely these terms.
Although proponents of all three approaches are attempting to make sense of our experience of temporally extended phenomena, there are divergences on the issue of how precisely this experience should be construed, and on several related matters.
In happier circumstances, what precisely constitutes a "bum gesture" could be construed as one of the great existential questions of our time.
But that is precisely what the film, with its narrowly construed range of ethical choices and emotional conundrums, works to exclude.
While the distinction remains ultimately unclear, the key idea is that nuclear properties are part of a thing's nature, broadly construed, and extra-nuclear properties are external to a thing's nature; more precisely, nuclear properties, but not extra-nuclear properties, are part of the characterization of what the object is.
Was freedom, narrowly construed, enough?
But he was construed otherwise.
But anarchism, broadly construed, is becoming fashionable.
Watch out!" – was construed a threat.
