This movement in understanding is necessary for human beings because as animals they only ever have a partial grasp of the natures of things, insofar as their knowledge depends upon always incomplete and partial sensible experience of the world.
Niko (Andre Robinson) is a 10-year-old hero, grown for the job but prematurely out of his cocoon; he has only a partial grasp of how the world works.
Years of striving to understand parasite modifications to the RBC have led to a partial grasp of the nature of the remodelled iRBC and the mechanisms used by the parasite to achieve these alterations.
In the present study we report a partial, fragmented grasp of what it means to eat for health.
"You complete me," says the Joker to Batman in The Dark Knight, displaying not just an uncanny grasp of cinema knowledge (he's quoting Jerry Maguire), but an uncharacteristically shrewd grasp of story structure too.
These models of thinking are probably closer to common sense and usable without having a grasp of scientific knowledge.
It starts becoming clear that he oversold himself for the role and really doesn't have a grasp of the knowledge for the job.
"Whenever anything in nature seems to us ridiculous, absurd or evil," said Spinoza "it is because we have but a partial knowledge of things".
But blogs lack a linear format, and linear storytelling empowers readers to grasp a full set of knowledge around a particular topic.
That is, my ability to grasp is predicated on a pre-understanding of "grasping," a non-conceptual form of knowledge elicited by the practical demands of a situation without a need to invoke propositional content.
That is to say, each particular function of life grasps only a partial aspect of life and cannot stand for the whole of life.
