Alston's attempt to make his position intelligible rests on his own Thomistic-Whiteheadian stance, or better, on his Thomistic or Boethian interpretation of Whitehead (strange as this seems).
She offers all of these examples in defense of her view that matter thinks: we do not understand how it thinks, but that is just a fact about us and what we are in a position to find intelligible.
Information made the situation intelligible and facilitated adjustment to the imminent death.
The PSR embodies the position that everything is explainable and thus intelligible.
Hoc enim implicat in se manifestam contradictionem. Ponere autem mundum aeternum, praesupposita aeternitate materiae, rationabile videtur et intelligible…" For the differing interpretations of Bonaventure's position on creation and the eternity of the world, see Stephen Baldner, "St.
The position of the Inaugural Dissertation is that the intelligible world is independent of the human understanding and of the sensible world, both of which (in different ways) conform to the intelligible world.
Boyle, along with his fellow mechanical philosophers, argued for his position on the grounds that it was clear and intelligible compared to rival systems such as Aristotelianism and those developed in chemical and related contexts by the likes of Paracelsus.
A crush of players jostling for position as a ball sails through the air suddenly becomes intelligible.
In order to inaugurate his new position, Kant also wrote one more Latin dissertation: Concerning the Form and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World (1770), which is known as the Inaugural Dissertation.
Thus, although the thesis positions satisfy reason's demand for the unconditioned, they do so by fleeing (however unwittingly) into an intelligible realm, by providing explanations that abstract from that which is or could be given in any spatio-temporal experience.
