Sentence examples for first construed from inspiring English sources

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That is, while he first construed knowledge on the model of self-awareness in which self reflects itself within itself, he also felt compelled to find a locus of non-differentiation behind the distinction between such awareness and things seen from its vantage point.

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Irigaray characterizes her own project as taking place in three stages: first, deconstructing the masculine subject; second, figuring the possibility for a feminine subject; and third, construing an intersubjectivity that respects sexual difference (Irigaray 1995a, 96).

A startling image of what might at first be construed as the tall shadow of a hooded form looking out to sea quickly emerges as an overhead perspective on an Ophelia-like figure suspended in the husk of a fishing boat, her long robes flowing into the water as oceanic projections (Dorothy Cross) gradually overwhelm her.

First, he construes the loyalty that he considers central to the possession of a life over which one is sovereign as some reasonably chosen cause: unchosen causes do not qualify as causes in Royce's sense.

The opinion, believed to be the first to construe the 2006 law setting up the IRS’ new Whistleblower Office and mandating a minimum 15% bounty for informants, also could help pry open secrets of a famous American fortune.

First, words are construed as the pairing of lexical forms with schematic concepts which have the prototypical properties of radial categories and function as access sites to encyclopedic knowledge.

The court's first opportunity to construe the Fourteenth Amendment was given by the Slaughter-House cases (1873), in which a group of livestock butchers challenged a state law that granted a monopoly of their trade to a single entrepreneur.

For instance Mancosu 1999 shows that Bolzano and Cournot, two major philosophers of mathematics in the nineteenth century, construe the central problem of philosophy of mathematics as that of accounting for the distinction between between explanatory and non-explanatory demonstrations.

Second, he construes the "if-then" or hypothetical conditional as the ground-consequence relation, and therefore apparently confuses strict or formal conditionals (i.e., logically necessary material conditionals) with material conditionals (according to which "if P then Q" is equivalent with "not-P or Q").

Fourth, he construes disjunction as the "exclusive or," which implies that if "P or Q" is true then "P and Q" is false, and therefore apparently overlooks the correct interpretation of disjunction as the "inclusive or," which implies that the truth of "P or Q" is consistent with the truth of "P and Q".

The prominence of Steely Dan and AC/DC in the first day could be construed as Coachella deliberately targeting audiences that are receptive to "dadrock" – though the band most popular with the dads I know is Wilco.

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