This is intelligible, Frege thought, only if you have different ways of understanding the expressions 'a' and 'b' — only if they involve for you distinct 'modes of presentation' of the self-same object to which they refer.
As Wittgenstein said, explaining meanings is explaining, trying to make sense of, forms of life and different ways of understanding the world.
Writing in the same paper, the Spanish prime minister, José Zapatero – a lifelong Barça fan – gushed that the final would be "a celebration of beauty between two teams with a lot of personality, two individual styles and two different ways of understanding the world".
But there are several different ways of understanding the cognitions involved.
These themes represent two different ways of understanding the concepts of the fat body and exercise clothing.
Lewis is basically saying that the Consequence argument equivocates between two ways of understanding ability claims (when they are applied to propositions) and two correspondingly different ways of understanding the "N" necessity of a proposition.
Indeed, these topics are the source of controversy in the philosophy of science, where an enormous literature explores different ways of understanding the structure and confirmation of theories (see Godfrey-Smith 2003, for an accessible review).
Sapir's student, Benjamin Whorf (1956), speculated that languages encode fundamentally different "logics," which become so habitual to language users that they seem natural, resulting in fundamentally different ways of understanding the world.
It's a sign that Jesus' death and his return in nail-scarred resurrection might open the door to different ways of living, to different ways of understanding the potential of human authority.
The progress of both science and religion, like two wings of a bird and two different ways of understanding the same ultimate reality, are both important to an ever-advancing civilization.
