The destroyed face showed no comprehension of anything except that something was terribly wrong.
It's a terrible and brave question, loaded as it is with the comprehension of having fatally misunderstood something, but what?
First, he mentions Plato's account of the Form of the Good, which is such that the mere comprehension of the fact that something participates in the Form (i.e., is good) somehow automatically engages the motivation to seek that thing.
Once a representation of something beyond our comprehension, the word trillion - 1,000,000,000,000 - has now sealed its place in common parlance.
Even if we own our bodies, this would not clarify why physicians must disclose and ensure our comprehension of information prior to intervention, something which proprietary rights seldom require.
Similarly, the close observations of "A Hole in the Head", about a slowly unravelling plastic surgeon, have a luminous yet nightmarish quality, as of something going on beyond the character's own comprehension.
But theology conceives of something greater than that a God so beyond human comprehension as to be be nothing but dubitable.
I did entitle my last chapter, or one of the last chapters, "Comprehending Biodiversity", because to me, comprehension is something different than being able to say a number like two million.
I also thought of something that Dorothea tells Rosamond toward the end of "Middlemarch," as she struggles toward her own comprehension of the complexity of intimate human relations: "Marriage is so unlike everything else.
In so doing, the model also represents a means for attaining full comprehension of the mechanical phenomena that are involved, something that neither three-dimensional elasticity nor finite elements and empirical formulas can attain.
