The phrase "a feel for why" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an understanding or intuition about the reasons behind something.
Example: "After analyzing the data, I finally have a feel for why our sales have declined this quarter."
Alternatives: "an understanding of why" or "a sense of why".
"I'm beginning to get a feel for why he uttered those words".
Why do you want to be a vet? "What we're looking for from a personal statement is to get a feel for why they want to be a vet and an understanding of what they've done about it," says Cannon.
It is possible to get a feel for why the number one is so common as a leading digit simply by writing down numbers and observing the patterns but, as Bellos notes, it is certainly not a rigorous proof.
You start to interact and talk about something that they're the expert on that I'm not, and you try to get a feel for why they did something, what did they get from it, and what else they want to do.
You may be dead set against the other person's idea but try and stand in their shoes and defend their side to get a feel for why they are so passionate or defensive about their issue.
People have to have a gut feel for why this nation-building project, with all its varied strands, is so important — why it's worth the sacrifice.
In the course of our discussion, we began to see elements of the view that liberal critics of the standard view critics such as Christopher Eberle, Philip Quinn, Jeffrey Stout, and Nicholas Wolterstorff endorse. To get a better feel for why these theorists reject the DRR, it will be helpful to step back for a moment to consider some important features of their view.
He doesn't seem to have a feel for how and why women's bodies might be forgiven.
We can unreservedly feel for why Anna comes to loathe him and yet still feel for him; maybe just because we get both points of view, but certainly because a reader can't help feeling what all Tolstoy's characters feel.
Listen to the music and feel for yourself why we must allow our sadness at the prospect of a badly damaged Arctic wilderness to inform our decision to protect the Arctic from oil companies like Shell.
At the same time, the challengers feel compelled to concoct a theory for why Congress would have inserted such a strange provision into the ACA in the first place.
