Caesar may be aware of his follower's interpretive abilities, and Antony will emerge as the most adept
construer in the play.
(287) The former canon instructed the
construer to read the claims in light of the specification, while the latter cautioned the
construer against reading limitations from the specification into the claims.
2001) (collecting six district court opinions following this reasoning, and explaining that "while the Federal Circuit has often stated that the indefiniteness inquiry is 'drawn from' the district court's role as a
construer of patent claims, [it] has not expressly held that these inquiries are one and the same, nor that the indefiniteness inquiry can not involve underlying questions of fact" (citation omitted)).
In more than one sense, the stories call for readers as
construers of meaning, interpreters of value systems, and suppliers of bridges over gaps in signification.
The Parisian's idea of a little joke is distinctly not Conrad's; his "moral satirical idea" is nothing less than a "study," through his superficial
construers, of "the special righteousness" of purely aesthetic judgements on and constructions of humankind.
(7:282) This had the virtue not only of humility, but of transcendence of sectional ideology in the interest of imaginary unity and wholeness; perhaps both sections had been wrong, both mere
construers of the Declaration.