In some cases, they take courses before starting their research to make sure they comprehend their subject matter on a deep level.
In their discussions, often during the stroll between the Patent Office and Kramgasse, "I could suddenly comprehend the matter". After a year of fruitless puzzling, the breakthrough came while talking to Besso.
A similar point may be made about Machiavelli, who wrote a book about the "art" of warfare and who used history and logic to develop an art of government, or about the brilliant polymath Paracelsus, who spent his whole career perfecting an art that would comprehend all matter and all spirit.
Like the mythological fruit of Tantalus, always just out of reach, its essence eludes us, too awful to fully comprehend no matter how passionately we seek to know and understand it.
I hated thinking that regardless of my level of education, my accomplishments, and my status in society, something that I had heard when I was a kid had finally been realized and comprehended: "No matter what you do, you'll still be a black man" -- but they forgot to include the word "scary".
But understanding more about how we comprehend mind and matter could mean a better designed world, one that promotes cooperative behaviour and one where we are all more confident about making the kind of ethical choices we face everyday.
It also seemed apparent that the whole subject of a rights based approach and human rights principles pose contextual challenges for rights holders to easily and fully comprehend the substance matter of the various principles and normative standards (rights).
It is to ensure that one has sufficient knowledge to comprehend and acquire the subject matter of a given course.
Especially in building theories and hypothesis, further research, on the basis of the delineation of presented terms, can be conducted to comprehend and discuss this matter further.
