This would allow us to say that if there are no true propositions during the first hour of a certain day, Socrates could utter his proposition at the end of this hour and it would be true, where he is understood as referring "not to the time at which he speaks but to the time of that first hour".
He was unable to comment to Guardian Australia on Thursday afternoon as he was understood to be travelling.
He could, however, have another goal, one that hasn't been worked into the copious public discussion of him: he could be understood as someone who is trying to start a civil war, or a series of civil wars, in the Middle East.
He would be understood as taking a special liberty with the term to suit a special purpose.
Unlike in an ordinary court, an arbitrator is able to do so because he can be understood as an integral part of the architecture of the meta-organization who can observe and assess the investments of the cooperating parties.
Thus, on this view, when Thales says that the first principle is water, he should be understood as claiming both that the original state of things was water and that even now (despite appearances), everything is really water in some state or another.
Cosell didn't need to "dwarf" the sporting events he covered to be understood as a significant cultural figure.
The "change" he advocates can be understood as a pragmatic correction to the radical policies and the ineptitude of the Bush brigade.
When Mr. Bradley asserts that Mr. Gore represents "old politics," he wants to be understood as calling Mr. Gore a panderer and a liar.
What most present-day Christians, and especially orthodox Roman Catholics, consider to be essential elements of the faith, he argues, must be understood as corruptions of Jesus' and Paul's intentions.
