Psychiatric diagnosis and its manual, the DSM, are a work in progress, with the shortcomings of any human endeavor in which scientific knowledge is incomplete.
Physical things contain matter as an essential element, and, if their matter is no part of what is known, then it seems that human knowledge is incomplete.
Yet in circumstances where our knowledge is incomplete about what happened, who was responsible and how best to respond given the complexity of the conflict that has engulfed Syria, there is a need to exercise caution and precaution.
The rarity of these tumors has made for limited experience and, as a consequence, our knowledge is incomplete.
However, the human knowledge is incomplete and refers only to the deductive relations faults-to-manifestations, while the diagnosis is basically abductive.
Adaptive management is an approach to natural resource management that emphasizes learning through management based on the philosophy that knowledge is incomplete and much of what we think we know is actually wrong.
Hence, when our knowledge is incomplete, uncertain approaches toward application are more appropriate.
Nonetheless, the "quantitative data" transformed by expert knowledge is incomplete and subjective.
So far this knowledge is incomplete and mainly based on expert opinions (Meyer et al. 2003; Rock et al. 2008; Zell et al. 2009).
Yet, if initial knowledge is incomplete (as normally occurring in spatial planning), then manifold action sequences can develop from different potential starting situations (Baral et al. 2000, pp. 241 242).
The working group discussed possible reasons (UNISDR 2016h): (1) knowledge is incomplete; (2) data is available but not translated into usable knowledge; (3) knowledge is used effectively but takes a long time to take effect; or (4) knowledge is used effectively in some respects but is overwhelmed by increases in population vulnerability and size (Weichselgartner and Kasperson 2010).
