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
Proponents of performing opera in English translation — in English-speaking countries, of course — say that intelligibility is their goal.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021
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
For those, on the other hand, who believe in the influence of discarnate spirits, this scheme affords a path of transition, and as it were a provisional intelligibility.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
