Both Timer Digest and Fund Exchange Report have trend-following systems and offer no interpretation of the major trend.
They offer no interpretation that conforms to their bedrock principles; they offer no narrative that fits the pieces into a comprehensible whole; they offer no vision for the future.
It offers no definitive interpretation of its subject, but it prompts much thought about the power of icons.
Another new biography, "Descartes: The Life and Times of a Genius" (Walker; $26.95), by A. C. Grayling, a prolific British philosopher and newspaper columnist, offers no revisionist interpretation of Descartes's thought but, instead, a highly readable tale with a startling suggestion about his life.
It succeeds because it offers no narrative, no interpretation, no mediation.
Mr. Burns offers no radical interpretations either of the course or causes of the war; his list of consultants is too large and imposing (C. Vann Woodward, Eric Foner, James McPherson) to admit to a personal view.
It offers no particularly novel interpretations.
But he offered no compelling interpretation of what we should be doing in the world, how, where, why, for how long, and at what cost.
Religious scholars use the term qat'i ("definitive," "not subject to interpretation") when they refer to the Koranic verses (or to the authenticated Prophetic tradition, ahadith) whose formulation is clear and explicit and offers no latitude for figurative interpretation.
However, the Bondi-Spurgin interpretation offers no explanation concerning why the energy of the constituents of a physical system, be it potential energy or kinetic energy, manifest itself as part of the inertial mass of the system as a whole.
