More than a year ago, Ms. Stitt, a former Navy officer who did a tour in northern Iraq, might have made a beeline for her car, ducked under a table or broken down in panic merely from the chopping of rotors — a sound she still associates with combat casualties.
As bullets zipped across the room, Sanders said she grabbed Camia Terry, her 11-year-old granddaughter, and ducked under a table.
Ofiuka Primary School has recognised the need to replace desks with tables and plastic chairs so that students can easily pull away the chairs to duck under the table during an earthquake.
So, the final interpretant of your utterance of "I saw her duck under the table" is my coming to a determinate understanding of what you mean.
It wasn't easy (on my arteries, that is) because traditionally this dish is made with an unconscionable amount of butter — an amount that makes cardiologists duck under the table.
In such a case as your uttering, "I saw her duck under the table", the final interpretant would be the understanding where there is "no latitude of interpretation at all" (CP5.447 (1905)), that is, where the meanings of the words, the identity of the agents involved and so on, are absolutely determinate.
"I thought, oiy, oiy, oiy," he said, which roughly means he did not know whether to run for the door or duck under the table.
"You've been married four times," I mention to George, getting ready to duck under the table if one of those jarring hooks is going to be my answer.
For instance, when you say to me whilst pointing at some cowardly woman we know, "I saw her duck under the table", the dynamic interpretant is my understanding that you are the utterer, that I am the addressee, and that you saw our cowardly acquaintance hide beneath a table.
"Low-fat," I mumbled, ready to duck under the table.
