construals

But the construals that have been offered of this have been more problematic.

Analysis Beaney, Michael 2009

(Donald Davidson developed a similar line of thought in less behavioristic terms, speaking in terms of constraints on a “radical interpreter,” who would favor “charitable” construals of alien speech.)

Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

Non-cognitivism first came on the scene as a rather starkly drawn alternative to prevailing cognitivist and realist construals of moral discourse.

Boys in White Suits 2009

We intend the talk of propositions and concepts in this context to be uncontentious, and not depend on any specific construals of these notions.

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

However, many of the most influential thinkers on twentieth century thought – people like Darwin, Einstein, Marx, and Freud, were atheistic (at least on some construals of atheism) and wrote significantly about God and religion or their ideas were used in understanding religion.

Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism 2007

On both construals, narrow contents are characterized as functions from context to (wide) content.

Mental Representation Pitt, David 2008

Concerns with non-existent objects or non-factual states of affairs are not explicit in Parmenides 'poem, however, and this leaves room for other construals of ˜what is not™ (such as the view that it always allows completion or specification as ˜what is not F,™ for some value of F, so that ˜what is not™ raises concerns about negative predication instead, especially in explanatory and cosmological contexts).

Intentionality in Ancient Philosophy Caston, Victor 2007

Such a functional architecture also coheres better with rationalist and realist construals of hedonic value, such as Goldstein's.

Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

Such construals contrast with the newspaper model of perceptual contents, and more specifically with the conception of contents as the accuracy conditions of experience.

The Contents of Perception Siegel, Susanna 2005

All four of these positions could be seen as offering construals of the contents of the perceiver's mind, where these are analogous to the contents of a bucket.

The Contents of Perception Siegel, Susanna 2005