Sentence examples for meaning construed from inspiring English sources

Traditionally, instrumentalists maintain that terms for unobservables, by themselves, have no meaning; construed literally, statements involving them are not even candidates for truth or falsity.

Contextualizing the learning contributes both to student motivation and to the making of meaning (construed by many educators as central to functional memory and effective learning).

These macro-thematic global nuclei provide the points from which the meanings construed in the remainder of the texts can be expanded — typically through an elaborating satellite that constitutes the main bulk of the text.

Nothing about the correctness of the claim that e.g. Peano arithmetic is incomplete, turns on the meaning of G, however the term "meaning" is construed.

This connection is manifest in Putnam's conception of meaning, first proposed in his classic paper "The Meaning of 'Meaning' " (1975), which construes meanings not as purely mental entities (e.g., mental images) or as purely conceptual constructs but as being anchored in external reality.

It has been argued that question meanings as construed by proposition set theories are all too coarse-grained to account for certain linguistic phenomena.

Linguists are then able to explore the differences and similarities across languages in their realisation of various grammatical meanings since languages tend to be more similar in terms of the range of meanings they construe than in their structural realisation of these meanings.

If we accept that the meaning potential is construed by systems of language choice; the instance is construed by patterns of language use, then we might be willing to consider that the lexical item (instance) is construed by patterns of use and that the lexeme (meaning potential) is construed by systems of lexico-grammar.

Based on Fig. 2, this statement can be rephrased in more abstract general terms as follows: the meaning potential is construed by systems of language choice; the instance is construed by patterns of language use.

Our sentence as used by us means one thing, we in using it mean or are properly construed as meaning something entirely different.

Regarding ideational meaning, all these examples contain some kind of circumstantial meaning - meaning which contextualises the events construed in the clause according to such dimensions as time, place and manner (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004).