Sentence examples for Seems intelligible from inspiring English sources

Theistic voluntarists face several difficulties: moral language seems intelligible without having to be explained in terms of the Divine will.

Intuitively the question seems intelligible, and the answer seems to be that it could not have failed to be greater than seven.

Even today's scientists marvel at the fact that, if we try hard enough, the universe seems intelligible.

She had a genius for making every thread count and for making structure seem both intelligible and mysterious.

In the dark stew of seventeenth-century America, procreation seems the one intelligible process available to slave, servant, and mistress, and love and disease threaten to make martyrs of them all.

The question, "Why is there a cosmos?" seems a perfectly intelligible one.

Yet the more the Prices speak, the odder they seem, and the more intelligible and reasonable seem the habits of the supposedly benighted people they have come to instruct.

And because he has a large brain, stretched and improved over two decades' work as a physicist at the University of Manchester, not to mention his last five years as a BBC TV personality making hard science seem half-way intelligible to the majority of us dumbos, Brian Cox can't help correcting me.

The idea of "one flesh" union seems far less obviously intelligible than other "basic goods" like friendship, knowledge or religion.

Yet radical Islamist movements now extend across the globe, from Somalia to Afghanistan and Indonesia, and Kilcullen — an Australian anthropologist and lieutenant colonel, who is "on loan" to the U.S. government — offers a new way to understand and fight a war that seems to grow less intelligible the longer it goes on.

If our understanding of reason talk leaves it wholly disconnected from anything at all in the economy of human motivation, such talk can readily come to seem puzzling and dubiously intelligible.