Sentence examples for when construed from inspiring English sources

The postulates themselves, when interpreted i.e., when construed as statements about the structure of physical space are indeed synthetic but also a posteriori; i.e., their adequacy depends upon the results of observation and measurement.

Time and again she has remonstrated with Rudy and Trudy, but to no avail: "Rudy, you're right to recognize that one can consistently adopt divergent cognitive attitudes to Q when construed classically and when construed constructively.

Supervenience physicalism is relatively simple and clear, but when construed as a formulation of physicalism, it faces four problems.

When construed as patient-induced, poor health is anchored to a patient-designed therapy plan and is co-constructed as a clear patient responsibility, necessitating a re-negotiation of an existing recommendation by doctors and patients.

When construed as doctor-induced, poor health is co-constructed as a physician error, but responsibility for it is sequentially refused by the doctor, who negotiates a fresh therapy plan to neutralise physician blame.

Other projects involve using evolutionary biology to try to undermine traditional moral realism the view that moral judgments can be true (accurately representing moral facts) when construed literally, that their truth does not depend on our evaluative attitudes, and that we can know at least some of these truths.

Such isotopic variations potentially confound the interpretation of isotopic signatures, and caution is required when construing them, especially when the bulk isotopic method is applied to higher animals.

In spite of the fact that the wording of the code, when strictly construed, enables many wrongdoers to escape, India has modified it in only marginal respects.

This claim hearkens back to the notion, described in places like "Materialism and Metaphysics," that scientific attention to facts, when properly construed within materialist research, can keep philosophy from overlooking actual human suffering.

Mach points out the obvious gap in the argument when so construed: the experiment only establishes that acceleration (rotation) of the water with respect to the Earth, or the frame of the fixed stars, produces the tendency to recede from the center; it does not prove that a strict relationist theory cannot account for the bucket phenomena, much less the existence of absolute space.

When we construe these notions as properties (rather than as linguistic expressions), a genus is a general property and a species is a more specific subtype of it.