Intelligible

If, indeed, that aspiration towards the Intelligible which is in our nature exists also in this Ruling-Power, then need not look elsewhere for the source of order and of the virtues in ourselves.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Intelligible being evidently includes what Socrates calls the divine, whose nature it is to rule and to lead (80a), and there is no indication that the forms exhaust the divine, or even include the divine, so understood.

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

Intelligible extension, then, is just the idea of geometrical extension and its properties, or what in the seventeenth-century came to be known as the ˜primary qualities.™

Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God Nolan, Lawrence 2008

Intelligible extension can represent the material world only if it resembles it in some way.

Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God Nolan, Lawrence 2008

Intelligible actions are actions for which the agent is accountable, actions which have a place in an ongoing narrative (MacIntyre 1984, 206-208).

Personal Identity and Ethics Shoemaker, David 2008

“Malebranche on Intelligible Extension,” British Journal of the History of Philosophy 11: 4, 581-608.

Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God Nolan, Lawrence 2008

The Objects of Faith are as Certain and as truly Intelligible in themselves as those of Science, as has been said already, only we become persuaded of the Truth of them by another Method, we do not

Mary Astell Sowaal, Alice 2008

Intelligible extension, conceived as a logical concept or even as a ˜pure™ idea devoid of any sensory components, is not the kind of thing that can have sensory qualities grafted onto it.

Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God Nolan, Lawrence 2008

Intelligible possession, then, is required by right in order for free beings to be able to realize their freedom by using objects for their freely chosen purposes.

Kant's Social and Political Philosophy Rauscher, Frederick 2007

Marylaine Block wrote about library signage in her most recent edition of Ex Libris: "User Intelligible."

Marylaine Block on Library Signs 2006