Another way to construe the question of the value of friendship is in more social terms: what is the good to society of having its members engaged in relationships of friendship?
One way to construe the question of the value of friendship is in terms of the individual considering whether to be (or continue to be) engaged in a friendship: why should I invest considerable time, energy, and resources in a friend rather than in myself?
Understood in this weak way, it is unexceptionable to construe the interrogative mood as used for asking questions, the imperatival mood as used for issuing commands, and so on.
The question whether words primarily signify concepts or things was now construed as the question: does a word signify an individual thing in the world directly, or does it signify first the concept which is a necessary condition for signification?
The answer depends once again on how the question is construed: the word "meaning" is an equivocal term that can itself mean many different things.
The question, "do numbers exist", for example, could be re-construed as the question, "is it useful to introduce the number framework".
But it noted, "Some members, however, construed the amendment as a vote on the controversial question of when life begins, although its passage would not have outlawed abortion in this country".
The U.S. EPA and NRC each provided definitions of susceptibility and construed the term differently.
Republicans construe the Democratic positions on these questions as socialism and international decline.
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.
