intelligibleness

• “But this abstract idea, being something in the mind, between the thing that exists, and the name that is given to it; it is in our ideas that both the rightness of our knowledge, and the propriety and intelligibleness of our speaking, consists.”

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

• “Now of these, it is true, the majority have really no proper names, but still we must try, as in the other cases, to coin some for them for the sake of clearness and intelligibleness.”

  Ethics

• “In speaking of Deism, the theory which explicitly denies the Divine immanence, we already had occasion to acknowledge that quality of intelligibleness which makes this doctrine easy of assimilation, and accounts, _e. g._, for the success of Islam, the deistic religion _par excellence_, as a propagandist creed.”

  Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive

• “Taking it at its best, its worth today could only be one of intelligibleness.”

  A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson

• “A defect running through his otherwise admirable modes of instruction, as it did through all his modes of thought, was that of trusting too much to the intelligibleness of the abstract, when not embodied in the concrete.”

  Chapter I. Childhood and Early Education

• “Such complexity would not place them above but below human compositions in general; for it would deprive them of the ordinary intelligibleness of human language.”

  Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.

• “This picture belongs to Sir Charles Turner, in London, and, so far as intelligibleness of composition goes, may be said to be an improvement on the Glasgow version.”

  Giorgione

• “Clearness, intelligibleness, exactitude were insisted upon.”

  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.

• “It never worked perfectly at any period of its existence, but it did transmit a number of messages with intelligibleness, and thus put an end to all doubt in the minds of the scientific men of the expedition of the feasibility of laying a successful line across the ocean.”

  Great Fortunes and How They Were Made

• “It never worked _perfectly_ at any period of its existence, but it did transmit a number of messages with intelligibleness, and thus put an end to all doubt in the minds of the scientific men of the expedition of the feasibility of laying a successful line across the ocean.”

  Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made

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