Thus, to take a simple example, if we wish to understand some particular artwork, we already need to have some prior understanding of that work (even if only as a set of paint marks on canvas), otherwise it cannot even be seen as something to be understood.
With the potential for highly localised websites that cannot even be reached by outsiders – let alone understood – many have worried about the potential for a series of so-called "splinternets" to evolve.
This key is used to encrypt a message so that it cannot be understood, even if it is intercepted.
The show is the first in a newly renovated space at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio, a sparklingly clean room but, alas, one with dialogue-eating acoustics; actors sometimes cannot be understood even though they're only a few feet away.
All too often the words they speak cannot be understood by their listeners, even when their lives depend on them.
Succintly stated: China cannot be understood without the world, the world cannot be understood without China.
Secondly, that modality de re cannot be understood in terms of analyticity and therefore cannot be understood at all.
Mystery, by definition, cannot be understood.
But the one cannot be understood without the other.
Suffering, like sin, cannot be understood in the abstract.
