What he had dismissed as a collection of fetishes he came to understand as a coherently constructed world that was nonetheless persistently strange.
The capacity for critical thinking includes the ability to plan ahead, organize information logically and coherently, understand cause and effect and anticipate consequences.
And is it possible to coherently understand epistasis in terms of the underlying protein biophysics?
We have therefore attempted to understand these findings coherently with a historical perspective and clarify the roles of mutation and natural selection in speciation.
She wasn't dead yet — she died a couple of weeks later — but mentally she was gone: she could no longer talk coherently or understand who Heather was or what she was saying.
(Ibid., 9-10) {§1.2, §5.8} analysis is a cognitive activity and it cannot be coherently understood except by recourse to intuition.
To live well is to continue to possess the ability to converse, to read, to retain what I learn and to coherently reflect and understand.
However, evolutionary biologists now correctly understand that the ability to coherently respond to environmental variation is itself a trait that can evolve and that genetic variation for this trait can be sorted within and among populations (Via 1984).
Williams' point is rather that the whole business of compiling balance-sheets of the utilitarian sort is incompatible with the phenomenon of agency as we know it: "the reason why utilitarianism cannot understand integrity is that it cannot coherently describe the relations between a man's projects and his actions" (UFA: 100).
In my experience as an executive and entrepreneur sitting on both sides of the creative/technology fence, I need to hire technologists who know how to collaborate in teams, express themselves coherently, engagingly and persuasively, understand how to take and apply constructive criticism, and how to tell a good story.
So I was forced to reach into myself and think of what I could say about our experience to a general audience, and try to talk coherently — in a way that untrained people could understand — about something that I cared about deeply.
