reconstrual

Rorty made explicit the desirability for a * reconstrual* of philosophy – * not* its eradication.

Matthew Yglesias » Richard Rorty 2007

Is recent theological language of re-enchantment a new and imaginative reconstrual of traditional belief?

God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the World By Nicola Hoggard Creegan William Harryman 2009

What about the reconstrual of our epistemic intuitions?

Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

When accompanied by a reconstrual of our epistemically modest intuitions, logical space for anti-realism is reclaimed.

Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

Is either the revision of classical logic or the clever reconstrual of our epistemic intuitions ad hoc?

Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

This relativistic reconstrual, like Berkeley's account of physical objects, is intended to save most of the phenomena of commonsense -- to treat as many of the things that we normally think are true or justified or right as indeed being true or justified or right -- while giving them a new and arresting philosophical interpretation.

Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003

Many philosophers will urge that relativistic reconstrual does not give us everything we want.

Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003

On this picture, which involves a standard relativistic reconstrual, the sentence ˜grass is green™ is true because it corresponds to the facts or fits the world -- but since the only world we can talk or think or know about is the world of our framework, we must (we are told) conclude that the sentence corresponds to the facts of that world.

Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003

He uses a lot of technical language ("content-locative"; "semantic reconstrual"), but leavens it with wit and anecdote, and has a thoroughly entertaining section about the grammar of swearing ("Just what does the 'f---' in 'f--- you' actually mean?"

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