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Greece
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In the sense that
Dec 21, 2023 16:00: Anastasia Kalantzi changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Dec 22, 2023 15:34: Michele Fauble changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
PRO (3): Mark Robertson, satrans, Anastasia Kalantzi
Non-PRO (4): AllegroTrans, Yvonne Gallagher, Edith Kelly, Michele Fauble
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United States
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by which I mean/specifically because
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/162159/meanings-o...
| Unfortunately I have no context. But I cannot uderstand how your proposal ("by which I mean") would fit in the context. Thank you! |
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AllegroTrans
: simply "because" - to avoid the "I" personalisation
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Thanks! I'm not suggesting you would use 'I' in this context. This is an English-English question, so I'm just explaining what it means.
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Anastasia Kalantzi
: Simply because / Due to the simple fact that/To the extent that
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Brazil
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to some extent..to the extent that
(in the sense that the person may or may not have performed a particular activity).=> (to the extent that the person may or may not have performed a particular activity).
What does it mean to say in a sense?
Sense is used in several expressions to indicate how true your statement is. For example, if you say that something is true in a sense, you mean that it is partly true, or true in one way. If you say that something is true in a general sense, you mean that it is true in a general way. In a sense, both were right.
What is another way of saying in a sense?
What is another word for in a sense?
as it were as one might say
sort of so to speak
in a way so to say
in a manner of speaking in some way or other
to some extent
Nigeria
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If interoperable databases are the sole method of cooperation.
| Thank you Victor |
Discussion
- first a general / potentially ambiguous proposition that could be interpreted in may ways
- followed by "in the sense of..."
-and then a clarification how this general proposition should be interpreted in that particular occurrence.
Hardly some rare / exotic turn of phrase, you get exactly the same in French and Serbian, used the same way.
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if no information about some activity by someone can be found in THE database (a specific one amongst the "interoperable databases") you could interpret that either as meaning:
- what's for sure: there is no record to be found [= how you should interpret it]
- or you can add all sort of assumed meanings, like "no activity occured as none was recorded" - a quite typical methodological mistake - [in which case it would be "interpreted erroneously as meaning more than it should"].
the part after "in the sense that" states explicitly why it would be wrong to give a "not found" search result "a meaning more than it should have":
"the person may or may not have performed a particular activity"
That part is clear
What is missing is the reason why this error in interpreting a "not found" search result would have anything to do with a set of databases being "interoperable" or not, or with other "ways of cooperating".
Knowing that would help to get a better overall understanding, but it makes no difference regarding "in the sense of ..."