reconstrue

verb

Etymology

From re- + construe.

  1. derived from construo
  2. derived from construo
  3. inherited from construen
  4. prefixed as reconstrue — “re + construe

Definitions

  1. To construe something again, or in a new way.

    • Near-synonym: reframe
    • Kripke is an essentialist, and so he is motivated to do things (such as reconstruing some modal intuitions) that are motivated by essentialism.
    • Experience of invalidation may lead to reconstruing, which may take various forms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reconstrue. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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