Sentence examples for merely intelligible from inspiring English sources

Albert realises that even 'supposit' ampliates the subject: when we say 'This term supposits for something', what it supposits for need not actually exist, but might be past, future, possible or merely intelligible.

For example, the past tense of 'A donkey ran' makes 'donkey' stand for both present and past donkeys, the 'can' in 'A rose can be red' makes 'rose' stand for both actual and possible roses, and the special nature of the predicate in 'Every chimera is imaginable' makes 'chimera' stand for (impossible but) merely intelligible chimeras.

Likewise, Wittgensteinians may claim that Wittgenstein's own opposition to metaphysics only concerned false attempts to render it intelligible: his merely ineffable but uneliminated metaphysics concerned precisely what for him were essentials of ways of representing the world.

Thesis 4 is paradoxical but easily intelligible.

However, Cardozo says that the demands of the bill — which would require companies to decrypt "unintelligible" data by making it "intelligible" — are merely a point from which the government can negotiate.

This intellect does not therefore store the acquired intelligibles, but merely serves to facilitate their reacquisition from the Agent Intellect.[40] The Agent intellect is, then, the source of intelligible forms on earth, and the source of our being able to conceive of them.

But the identity conditions for sets are intelligible only if the notion of a set is intelligible.

Accordingly, they constitute the world's "fixed form" (2.022 3): the character of any possible world is constrained by the objects because all possible atomic states of affairs are configurations of them (On Wittgenstein's conception of possibility, the notion of an "alien" Tractarian object — one which is merely possible — is not even intelligible).

Language, depleted of poetry, reduced to information, is no longer an art that reveals and makes the world intelligible (home,) it merely describes the structures that incarcerate us.

Here, the dolphin responds, but says nothing intelligible back.

For, it remains possible for being to continue to become newly intelligible only if it cannot ever become fully intelligible.