All 4 Uses of
intelligible
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Einstein had said: Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world.†
Part 2 *intelligible = capable of being understood
- Unless we apply the concepts of space and time to the impressions we receive, the world is unintelligible, just a kaleidoscopic jumble of colors and patterns and noises and smells and pain and tastes without meaning.†
Part 2unintelligible = not capable of being understoodstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.†
Part 2intelligible = capable of being understood
- Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.†
Part 2