And we, alone again under an oblivious sky, were quick to learn how our best construals of divinity, our "Do unto, Love, Don't kill," could be easily garbled to canticles of vengeance and battle prayers.
Comesaña suggests following Conee and Feldman (2004) in opting for a "mentalist" construal of our evidence, according to which our evidence ultimately consists in various mental states.
And as with our other cognitive construals, developmental psychologists have paid little attention to the development of anthropocentric thinking past the age of 10.
That explanation, when conjoined with our prima facie justification for believing the contents of our intuitions (and our being prima facie justified isn't challenged on this construal of the argument) seems to suffice as an explanation of our reliability.
Moreover, Quine and Putnam maintain that these standards sanction platonist mathematics because mathematics and its platonist construal are an indispensable part of our best scientific theories.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to use temporal construal theory to inform interventions designed to address young adult smokers' risk self-exempting practices.
It is encapsulated in the saying "our country, right or wrong," at least on the simplest and most obvious construal of this saying.
By the hedonistic doctrine of well-being, Nietzsche takes the utilitarians to have in mind "English happiness," namely, "comfort and fashion" (BGE 228) — a construal which, if unfair to some utilitarians (like Mill), may do justice to our ordinary aspirations to happiness.
This seeds the construal of a third self-socio-structural nested level, other than self and social, within our characterizations.
The good news is that positive construal can be taught.
We finally discuss how construals of the experimental hypotheses can influence investigators' construal of the data.
