Sentence examples for understood roughly from inspiring English sources

For instance, Austin (1950) proposes a view in which each statement (understood roughly as an utterance event) corresponds to both a fact or situation, and a type of situation.

As it is hereditary variations that are needed for evolution via natural selection, Jablonka and Lamb set out to study different inheritance systems (where system is understood roughly to mean a set of interacting factors and mechanisms) by identifying different kinds of hereditary variation (Jablonka 2001; Jablonka & Lamb 1995, 2005).

It's impossible to understand roughly three-quarters of Western art if you don't know the events of the Old and the New Testaments and the stories of the saints.

For all its crime and corruption and bureaucracy, Moscow has by far the best-developed infrastructure in Russia, and a government that understands roughly how laws and markets work.Moscow's banks and traders would put up the money for a Luzhkov presidential campaign.

BonJour outlines four traditional assumptions about knowledge, understood as roughly justified true belief, which he "broadly" endorses (BonJour 2010: 58 9).

Both AT&T and Verizon deflected any talk of financial upsides of this whole SMS arrangement, but it's generally understood that roughly one-third to half of the revenue generated by third-party providers goes to carriers.

Again, natural languages are understood because, roughly, such an understanding consists in translating their sentences into one's Mentalese.

Lacan's phrase "symbolic order," which encompasses all of the preceding, can be understood as roughly equivalent to what Hegel designates as "objective spirit".

I think that I, like many other people, came to understand soloing roughly to be the same thing as "improvisation," as Mr. Murray intended it.

"We should all feel a duty to try to understand the roughly half of the country that thinks we are severely misguided," Altman wrote.

Medievals refer to the predicates in question as 'relative terms' (ad aliquid or relativa),[9] and understand them, roughly speaking, as those terms whose true predication requires a comparison to something other than the subject of which they are predicated.