Quoting these passages, David Chalmers (1996, p. 360) objects that if 'something is going on' is construed broadly enough it is inadequate, and if it is construed narrowly enough to cover only experiential states (or processes) it is not sufficient for the conclusion.
We might therefore try to tighten the definition by saying that a miracle is an event that exceeds the productive power of nature (St. Thomas Aquinas, SCG 3.103; ST 1.110, art. 4), where "nature" is construed broadly enough to include ourselves and any other creatures substantially like ourselves.
The court held that the "method" in the constitution should be construed broadly, allowing for more than one way of indicating choice within a single uniform electoral system.
It would explicitly relax some stringent standards set by the court and says that disability is to be "construed broadly," to cover more physical and mental impairments.
"Methods" should be construed broadly here to encompass not only, say, the experimental method, but also the styles of explanation (e.g., identification of causes that determine, ceteris paribus, their effects) employed in the sciences.
While it should, in general, be construed broadly, as integrity of the intellect, and thus applicable to anyone who thinks, here we will concentrate on the integrity of the intellectual, or integrity as the academic's virtue, as Susan Haack puts it (1976, 59).
According to the Supreme Court, "redress of grievances" is to be construed broadly: it includes not solely appeals by the public to the government for the redressing of a grievance in the traditional sense, but also, petitions on behalf of private interests seeking personal gain.
The single correct logic, then, will be the one that describes the relation of truth-preservation over all cases where 'all' is construed as broadly as possible (Beall & Restall 2006, 92; Priest 2006, 202).
If we choose to be strict, we can argue that there is something like an "accommodation module", which as such has nothing to do with world knowledge; whereas if the notion is construed more broadly, accommodation is of a piece with bridging.
A further resource available to contractualism that is not available to utilitarianism is that my reasons for rejecting a principle are not limited to my well-being however broadly that notion is construed.
Explicit modality is construed as Figure.
