"We try to make it intelligible to prisoners, and we don't always succeed," he says wryly.
"Although there was a lot of misinformation by the no camp in this campaign, the message from this result is that whenever the EU draws up a treaty they should make it intelligible to ordinary people.
In a state where tea, coffee and tobacco are gateways to sun, the co-existence of creamy confectionery, philoprogenitiveness, belief in the miracles of Joseph Smith, live memories of polygamy, winter sports, and a conviction that death is a plywood door that produces a pattern of life that requires great art to make it intelligible.
These Forms not only make the world possible, they also make it intelligible, because they perform the role of universals, or what Frege called 'concepts'concepts
On this score, some suggest that conceptual candidates for grounding meaning are purposes that not only have a positive value, but also render a life coherent (Markus 2003), make it intelligible (Thomson 2003, 8 13), or transcend animal nature (Levy 2005).
You can't finish a project faster with style and taste, but you can make it intelligible to grandparents who can't wrap their minds around a double click or ctrl-drag.
As a consequence, expert power now increasingly resides in a combination of nonhuman, real-time feedback technologies and the human intermediaries who can translate and narrate the flow of data to make it intelligible for 'public audiences' and 'political agents and states' (Davies, 2017: 17).
It is natural to connect this conception of laws with unificationist approaches to explanation: if laws are generalizations that play a central role in the achievement of simple (and presumably unified) deductive systemizations, then by appealing to laws in explanation, we achieve explanatory unification this makes it intelligible why it is desirable that explanations invoke laws[32].
As Campbell himself notes, the sort of explanation that physical properties can provide for hurricanes is neither exceptionless nor rational, but it nonetheless makes it intelligible why a hurricane is occurring or how it is behaving within its own particular explanatory framework.
Within the framework of understanding the relationship between physical and mental properties, ceteris paribus relations can make it intelligible why some mental event is occurring because some physical event is occurring, and there is a ceteris paribus relationship between them even while not providing an exceptionless explanation for its occurrence.
