Sentence examples for if he construed from inspiring English sources

"I will try to avoid it, as I did the first nomination," he said, but added that if he construed it as a personal duty, as defined by his Islamic faith, then he would run.

Brink (1988, 1992) has urged that some of Sidgwick's chief arguments make better sense if he is construed, in externalist fashion, as allowing the possibility that one may have good reasons not to be moral.

He construed it as a partial down payment.

He construed a closed diagnostic system leading to a personally dedicated treatment.

Still he construed individual organisms as most important units of selection.

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").

This leads him to reject completely certain propositions Ockham had admitted as reasonable, even if he did not construe them in quite the same way, e.g., 'Socrates is a relation'.

There, he construes the sculptor's message: "Agony awaits if you let your child out into a world of lost souls.

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".

But he construes the creative process of the genius rather differently from Kant.

Clinton Heylin has described what he construes as the strange circumstances surrounding the song.