If I had any trouble comprehending the reality of that country, its people, the explosions that had already happened and the explosions yet to come, in less than a year I would cross Iraq's border with Kuwait in my own up-armored Humvee.
At stake in colonial agnosia is the profound investment in maintaining the failure to comprehend the realities of colonialism by those people who might most benefit from these conditions.
Some believe analogies are the best way to help kids comprehend the realities of conflict without understanding, say, 75 years of Israeli-Palestinian historical minutiae.
The lawyer comprehends the world in terms of formal complaints.
But it's impossible to really comprehend the brutal reality of tar sands mining without seeing it firsthand.
This subtle suspicion that everything I did was absurd, that my onward trudge depended on a false refusal to fully comprehend the terrific reality of death's finality, spurred me to consume religion and philosophy.
Clinging to the simplistic Vietnam era mind-set, where ere goes the U.S. military, misery follows -- they fail to comprehend the ground reality of their impassioned "Troops Out -- Stop the Drones" mission.
But that excuse is based on either not fully comprehending the economic realities of the world or, more importantly, not understanding the changes in the IMF structure that were included in the bill, or possibly both.
His quixotic and winning book is an attempt to comprehend the physical realities of the Internet, to describe how this seemingly intangible thing is actually constructed.
But, just as truth admits of degrees, a judgment being less true the further it is from comprehending the whole of reality, so (consistent with 'the identity of truth knowledge and reality') reality itself admits of degrees, a phenomenon being the less real the more it is just a fragmentary aspect of the whole.
Through the advances of science, the development of technology, the spirit of collaboration and teamwork, and the pooling of our collective resources, we have not only come to comprehend the laws governing reality, but we've begun to both understand and explore the Universe around us.
