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
Tilney appears to like his characters more than Holsinger does, and yet that affection never translates into specificity, intelligibility.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2019
They retain, however, the condition of intelligibility; the joke would lose all its effect if the allusion could not be traced back to the actual without any effort whatsoever.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
