Sentence examples for understood reference to from inspiring English sources

Always by the words "science" and "scientific" Peirce understood reference to actual practice by scientists in the laboratory and the field, and not reference to entries in scientific textbooks.

This novel by one of Britain's foremost novelist-biographers is set in the far future in London, where an honored orator named Plato fills his Socratic meditations with dimly understood references to the ancient past.

However he wonders whether non-British viewers would have understood references to The Italian Job and Only Fools and Horses.

There were jokes that Hassan didn't understand, references to Web sites that he didn't read.

Nora Christenson, 32, from Gowanus, said she often wondered if a national audience would understand references to Park Slope's ubiquitous strollers.

With an audience that understands references to consumerism as "a hedonic treadmill," many articles in The New Inquiry make The Paris Review look like a beach read.

Winning, we're meant to think, is not so important, but a comedy that expects its audience to understand references to Proust and Nietzsche probably can't be accused of advocating mediocrity.

I am glad I can finally understand references to Blanche, even though I feel (controversially?) that Sophia is definitely the best character.

As it is normally understood, reference is the preeminent word-to-world relation.

However, because Dasein is fundamentally embedded in the world, we simply cannot understand ourselves without the detour through the world, and the world cannot be understood without reference to Dasein's way of life.

The reason for a thickness increase can be understood through reference to principles of natural selection via predation without need to reference or understand the biomolecular properties of the exterior shells.