intelligibility

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"They didn’t share his optimism that physics will be able to actually produce any theory of intelligibility and consciousness which is responsible for the physical picture of the world."

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

He long ago left behind intelligibility, at least in the conventional sense.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2023

But like most palindromes, Tenet prizes reversibility over intelligibility: The point of “Able was I ere I saw Elba” is that it reads the same both ways, not that it teaches you anything.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020

The book still needs what Harriet, as a child, called “footmarks”—not to present incidentally interesting facts but, rather, to provide a basic intelligibility.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019

There is some reason to believe that the syllogistic form, as a test of valid arguments, may be entirely dispensed with, if we can secure accuracy of data, and intelligibility in terms.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob