Sentence examples for interpreted as asserting from inspiring English sources

One might even hold that she should be interpreted as asserting that the act of hurting the cat has the power to prompt a certain act of emotional projection.

According to such a view, when Jane utters the sentence "Hurting that cat is impermissible" what she is doing is best interpreted as asserting that the act of hurting the cat has the power to prompt a certain kind of emotional response in her (or in some person in specifiable ideal circumstances).

This is naturally interpreted as asserting that under causal worlds where only one marksman shoots, that individual shot would have been pivotal to the barrister's death.

Whenever politicians position themselves as standing up for Christmas, some will almost certainly interpret that as asserting the supremacy of Christianity over minority faiths and by extension of minorities themselves, even though May pointedly mentioned the "very strong tradition in this country of religious tolerance".

If one interprets Locke as asserting that there are real essences for individuals, and these essences are not indexed to a specific time, then this might have implications for how we interpret Locke on diachronic identity.

are interpreted as a numberless description, (13) asserts that if Sarah owns a donkey, she beats all the donkeys she owns and (14) asserts that every donkey owning woman beats every donkey she owns.

Mīr Dāmād returned to Avicenna and sought to harmonize his views with those of al-Suhrawardī on the assumption that what Avicenna meant by his "Oriental" (mashriqiyyah) philosophy was identical with al-Suhrawardī's wisdom of "illumination" (ishrāq), which he interpreted as a Platonic doctrine that asserted the priority of essence (form) over being (existence).

Rather than interpret 'the ball is red' as a predication of redness to a thin particular, we can instead take 'the ball' to refer to the thick particular a complex state of affairs and interpret 'the ball is red' as asserting that this thick particular includes redness as a constituent.

If we interpret 'the ball is red' as asserting that the ball-bundle includes a red trope, and we take the ball-bundle to have its constituent tropes essentially, then the ball turns out to be an ontological commitment of 'the ball is red'.

"Halayeb," a mineral-rich disputed border triangle between Sudan and Egypt, "is Sudanese and will revert to Sudan," President Omar Hassan Al Bashir asserted this week in what observers interpreted as stirring the pot of already very strained ties between Khartoum and Cairo.

This is the beauty of the fictionalists' view: they endorse all of the Platonists' arguments that mathematics is best interpreted as being about abstract objects, and then they simply assert that they do not believe in abstract objects.