Some standards that we employ in making a statement, for example, are understood to be merely guidelines or rule of thumb, not direct applications of the statement's truth conditions.
Others motivated by post-modern considerations concerning the nature of the self, rationality, language, and identity, are also suspicious of the manner in which the basic concepts operative in liberal theories of justice ("autonomy" for example) are understood as fixed, transparent, and without their own political presuppositions (see, e.g., Butler 1990; for general discussion see White 1990).
Thus "work", for example, is understood in a very narrow and instrumental way.
Is the vast segment of so-called popular literature merely a product of the "culture industry," or could kitsch, for example, be understood as something more subversive?
Fallacies can, for example, be understood as violations of the rules for critical discussion, and the development of such discussion incorporates the use of schemes of argument.
Worlds may be conceived in various ways: they may, for example, be understood as possible universes in alethic modal logic, times or moments in tense logic, permissible conditions in deontic logic, or epistemically possible states of knowledge in intuitionistic logic.
They may for example be understood to form part of the unemployment conditions of public employees.118 This raises the possibility of particular individuals being sanctioned or suffering consequences where they fail to act as expected.
The speaker of the first installment, for example, is understood to be a doctor who spent several years studying in Paris, while the second volume The Professor at the Breakfast-Table is told from the point of view of a professor of a distinguished medical school.
Recent examples which are understood to have caused consternation include the singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor's disclosure on Twitter that she was to appear in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's new comedy Life's Too Short alongside Sting.
For example, some directors are understood to be furious at the DfT's proposal to impose a special director on to its board.
