Sentence examples for understood as referring from inspiring English sources

There are some anaphoric pronouns that cannot be understood as referring expressions that inherit their referents from other referring expressions, nor as variables bound by quantified antecedents.

You can't help noticing, however, that the new terms refer, or can be understood as referring, to the same populations as the old racial terms.

Disability began to be understood as a limitation in performing the roles and tasks expected of an individual within a social environment and was thus understood as referring to an individual's performance of activities related to social roles.

The names previously understood as referring to tribes can continue to be used, however, as convenient shorthand as long as it is realized that they do not all represent equivalent categories.

The word church in the 1st-century Gospel According to Matthew is to be understood as referring to the community of the faithful rather than to a definite ecclesiastical organization.

One, deriving from Immanuel Kant, is that in which it is understood as referring to the source of all knowledge of matters of fact not based on, or capable of being supported by, observation.

So here again we have an anaphoric pronoun that cannot be understood as a referring expression nor as a bound variable.

That is understood by Palestinian as referring only to pre-1967 Isrand anotnotothethe West Bank and Gaza, which Israel occupied in 1967.

You could write a book on what constitutes "science", but let's assume most people understand the term as referring to knowledge gained through observation, experimentation, and systematic rational study.

Thus, we understand the expression as referring to a cowherd-colony "on the bank of the river Ganges".

For the purposes of what follows, we shall understand "physical" negatively, as referring to entities that are found outside the mental and other special realms, as well as within.