It stands against the position of his contemporaries who abandoned talk of natures or essences or of their intelligibility, but also against those who imagine that essences were created and then came to exist.
These other circumstances are also contingent, pointing beyond themselves for the ground of their intelligibility.
This communication phenomenon results in individuals increasing their speech amplitude in order to enhance the intelligibility of their speech within noisy environments and contributes to a rapid escalation in environmental noise.
The relation between the age of first word and speech intelligibility rating was determined to be significant (significance > 0.01); hence, families of children who started speaking after 5 years of age gave lower ratings for the intelligibility of their children's speech.
In changes made to previously published works, two years later (1695), Malebranche even more explicitly ties the intelligibility of ideas to their causal efficacy (Robinet 1965, 259, note 2).
In this phase, the aim was to improve the intelligibility of questions without affecting their validity (because of a change in wording) [ 52].
Second, things (and their posited but unproven existence) remain nothing but "ideas indispensable for the intelligibility of the changeable phenomenal world" (Micro, II, p. 584).
These considerations also cast doubt on the intelligibility of the idea that humans must forgive one another their trespasses in order to become more like Jesus' human incarnation of God and warrant divine forgiveness.
A critic, on the other hand, could argue that, from the philosophical perspective, the introduction of force undermined the case for the clarity and intelligibility of mechanical atomism on which its originators had based their case.
The dogmatic metaphysicians preceding him, Kant argued, imagined that they could demonstrate the truth of their doctrines in rigorous mathematical fashion, but metaphysical concepts lacked the precision and intelligibility of mathematical concepts.
