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Example sentences for "properly understood"

  • Properly understood, it is not a maxim which any party need be ashamed to own.

  • We have found that, properly understood, there is nothing in it to evoke our pessimism.

  • The woman movement of modern times, properly understood, has thus been the effort of women to adapt themselves to the conditions of an orderly and peaceful civilization.

  • Properly understood, asceticism is a discipline, a training, which has reference to an end not itself.

  • What that battle was and what an extraordinary victory came of it must needs be told for the significance of Mistral in Provence to be properly understood.

  • Properly understood, therefore, the cult of the skirt-dancer has a religious significance, and man's preoccupation with petticoats is but the popular recognition of the divinity of woman.

  • It carries with it rationalistic associations to which the Critical standpoint, properly understood, yields no support.

  • Schematism, properly understood, is not a process of subsumption, but, as Kant has already recognised in A 124, of synthetic interpretation.

  • Science can be a priori just because, properly understood, it is not a rival of metaphysics, and does not attempt to define the absolutely real.

  • And as this first Analogy, properly understood, thus deals solely with spatial changes of bodies, the principle of the conservation of matter has no real connection with it.

  • I trust I have made it sufficiently clear that the doctrine of Equivocation, properly understood, has been devised in the interests of Veracity.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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