How are the pyschic sufferings of a man so anachronistically fated and so emotionally crippled to be made comprehensible?
As she puts it in "Housekeeping," there is a law of completion, requiring that everything "must finally be made comprehensible.... What are all these fragments for, if not to be knit up finally?" But will this restoration ever be enough?
Primitive man associates whatever is experienced as uncanny or powerful with the presence of a sacred or numinous power; yet he constantly lives in a profane realm that is made comprehensible by a paradigmatic, mythical sacred realm.
It's a rationalist's form, both for its faith in the evidence-based logic of investigation and in its promise that the culprit will be not only uncovered but explained, that the horror of violence will be made comprehensible with the revelation of a motive.
Educators want to introduce students to topics that can be made comprehensible only by drawing on the ideas and methods of many scientific disciplines, one of the reasons climate change and other large-scale environmental problems are seen as holding so much potential in the classroom.
How are the pyschic sufferings of a man so anachronistically fated and so emotionally crippled to be made comprehensible?" And brilliant: "You figure out what it's all about gradually; as with poetry, learning another language, learning to see and think differently, the demands and rewards are intense and real.
The existence of the universe…can be made comprehensible if we suppose that it is brought about by God" (1979, 131 2).
In particular, how should basic evolutionary principles be made comprehensible to medical students and doctors who were last introduced to evolution in secondary school or undergraduate colleges (if at all) and who have little time or interest for theoretical literature?
The murky subjects of toxic debt, trading in oil, the economy of housing, Brexit and how to count your bitcoins are made more comprehensible thanks to NPR's Planet Money.
Some decisions are made for actual, comprehensible reasons, and others are … unconscious, I suppose.
Some decisions are made for actual, comprehensible reasons, and others are... unconscious, I suppose.
