Word: comprehendible
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Both movements, the logicians as well as the lotus-eaters, appear to do away with what has usually been considered the very heart of philosophy: metaphysics, the attempt to comprehend through reason the nature of reality. In The Conditions of Philosophy, a current examination of the discipline, Mortimer Adler charges that the analytic thinkers abandon "first-order questions" that metaphysics used to ask-such as the nature of being, causation, free will-and are concerned mostly with second-order problems of method. The existentialists, on the other hand, continue to ask large-size questions, but because of their man-centered...
...former Little Rock Congressman Brooks Hays and subsequently prevented Negroes from holding civil rights demonstrations. Judge Wisdom left no doubt as to his own opinions of the Klan, branded defendant Klansmen as "ignorant bullies, callous of the harm they know they are doing and lacking in sufficient understanding to comprehend the chasm between their own twisted Konstitution and the noble charter of liberties under law that is the American Constitution...
...Orthodox and Conservative Jews, a Judaism without the Talmud is as unthinkable as the U.S. without the Constitution. The United Synagogue hopes that its translation will stimulate a new generation of Jews to rediscover the wonders and spiritual riches of historic Judaism's attempt to comprehend the divine imperative. As the Talmud itself says: "In the hour of death, God shows to those who study the Law the reward they will receive...
...cannot comprehend this kind of love...
These few students have failed to comprehend this difference, while the vast majority of students have neglected to inform them that they might better serve the cause of peace and eradicate the causes of war by demonstrating their talents in the Peace Corps instead of demonstrating their stupidity on the streets of Chicago or at the gates of the White House...