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  • It is not anti-military, but it does reflect–to a biassed extent–the "ugly American" construal of US intervention in global affairs. Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion
  • As he notes, on this construal, emergent properties will include both relational and non-relational properties.
  • In cognitive grammar, meaning variation of a linguistic unit resides in not only the entity it designates but also the construals imposed on the conceived situation.
  • It's not a mondegreen because the mis-construal is not part of a song or poem or similar performance.
  • Is this yet another convenient misconstrual of something else Isaid? The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
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  • I suspect that a careful study of the phenomena (which I have certainly not made) would reveal that these alternative construals are playing a role in the on-going changes in various uses of like, including quotative ‘be like’.
  • And this misconstrual is beyond foolish, for it is transparently clear what the counterexamples are for, and what thesis they are directed at. The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
  • True, a certain construal marks any theological interpretation, but perhaps that can be at least reduced and limited.
  • Is this yet another convenient misconstrual of something else I said? The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
  • Is de Man now going to tell us that his liberal construal of Rousseau carries the authority of objective validity?
  • Might a certain construal of authorial discourse interpretation be hospitable to reading by non-scholars?
  • You sidewise reference to Behe there perpetuates a misconstrual of his testimony in Dover, by the way. Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision
  • (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
  • Is de Man now going to tell us that his liberal construal of Rousseau carries the authority of objective validity?
  • The hominid fossil record isn’t even especially “jerky” when examined quantitatvely at fine-scale resolution, so the creationists don’t even have their usual incompetent misconstrual of punctuated equilibria which is actually about morphologically small gaps between closely-related sister species to rely upon. Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb
  • I think one of the insights of recent works on the philosophy of recognition (Patchen Markell, for instance) is that we only know who we are after the fact - self-fashioning through texts is part of the negotiation of our identity with other that we tell ourselves is proleptic but is ultimately always a construal of the past (metaleptic). permalink Savage Minds
  • Finally, I think I'll stick with ‘seminiscient’ as an apt term to describe the open theist construal of God's knowledge.
  • On the broadest construal, this would issue in a comprehensive prosopography of everyone who had ever lived in a given territory (and of a good many who lived outside it).
  • The agential powers of the self-ascriber also play an important role in another non-epistemic construal of what is special about self-knowledge, the authority view. Self-Knowledge
  • As I see it, the way forward is to develop and test particular narrative construals of Scripture.
  • 1962 Hintikka proposed a tense-logical construal of his possible worlds semantics, maintaining that ˜if we do not want to tie our logic to old-fashioned physics, we are undoubtedly wiser if we ¦ no longer require that the alternativeness relation (in this case it could perhaps be more appropriately termed “futurity relation”) effect a linear ordering™ (1963: 76). The Sun Is Not
  • Scholars have been engaging these texts for decades, and most of them have concluded, as I have, that they really do represent a construal of Christianity distinct and often opposed to that found in the canonical texts.
  • What the Nobel laureate seems to realize -- Vitter's misconstrual notwithstanding -- is that pricing oil at its actual cost is the fastest way for the next-generation technologies to flourish with something like, yes, free-market vigor. Jed Horne: Senator Vitter Discovers Adam Smith
  • Metaphor is not only a cognitive mechanism but also method of text construal.
  • Singelis modified Markus and Kitayama's crosscultural theory of individualism and collectivism to formulate an individual differences model involving independent and interdependent self-construals.
  • I have no authorization from ShelbyC, nor am I the same person as he, I just jumped in because your uncharitable misconstrual was getting ridiculous. The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
  • So any construal of forgiveness that seems flat or dry is obviously lacking.
  • Some of the editorial endnotes are illuminating, yet too many of the poet's turns of phrase resist 'normal' construal. The Times Literary Supplement
  • You sidewise reference to Behe there perpetuates a misconstrual of his testimony in Dover, by the way. Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision
  • Is de Man now going to tell us that his liberal construal of Rousseau carries the authority of objective validity?

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