Reconstrue

verb

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

    "Kripke is an essentialist, and so he is motivated to do things (such as reconstruing some modal intuitions) that are motivated by essentialism."

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"Kripke is an essentialist, and so he is motivated to do things (such as reconstruing some modal intuitions) that are motivated by essentialism."

Etymology

From re- + construe.

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