Meanings
- formalrareuncountableThe state or quality of being comportable; consistency; suitability; tolerability.
But what about that plausibility? What would make belief in the ultimate comportability of all Stories' mandated actions a plausible belief?
2004, Richard C. Prust, At the Interface - Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief - Probing the Boundaries, Radopi Publishing - Amsterdam & New York - Printed in the Netherlands, page 442 more examples
But this descriptive commonplace is not sufficient to account for the sort of comportability-predicated integrity we have been talking about.
1994, The Personalist Forum, volume 10 to 13, The Furman University Press - Originally: The Michigan University Press, page 159Said otherwise, objects themselves enable various projects (of course assuming given modes of intentional comportability), and so, “anyone” can take them up and can thereby gain the modes of selfhood implicated therein.
2001, Corey Anton, Selfhood and Authenticity, State University of New York Press - Albany, page 61
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