On the smooth white, his rapidly sketched blue lines veered, with occasional squeaks, this way and that — from modern English, which we understand, to Shakespearean English, which we pretend to understand but kind of don't, to Chaucerian English, which we don't pretend to understand, and then to Old English.
Stand Your Ground, which is not applied equally across racial lines, encourages people to act from their basest fears, which we understand are fed by our society's racism.
The cellular signaling process at the nanoscale is a kind of nano-communication, from which we may understand some natural phenomena and explain the mechanisms that generate the phenomena.
This forward-genetic approach provides an alternative means for dissecting the molecular genetic control of neuronal population dynamics, with each genomic locus serving as a causal anchor from which we may ultimately understand the developmental principles responsible for the control of those traits.
Results of such analyses can then function as starting points, from which we can attempt to understand barriers to presentation from a perspective more akin to that of an individual's experience, i.e. one that is symptom-based as opposed to disease-based.
It is the fear that we don't understand the great nothingness from which we emerged and to which we must return, very soon.
They leave us without a perch from which to understand why we find something funny so sad.
Another argument on behalf of impossible worlds, quite pervasive in the literature (e.g. Beall & van Fraassen 2003, Chapter 4; Nolan 1997; Restall 1997; Brogaard & Salerno 2013), comes from counterpossible reasoning, which we can here understand as particular counterfactual reasoning from conditional antecedents which are not only false, but impossible.
In §37 of the Preliminary Discourse, he writes: "There need be no fear that philosophy as we have defined it is impossible…Things which are or occur are not without a reason from which it is understood why they are or occur (§ 4).
That everything has a reason "from which it is understood" why it is rather than not is certainly no modest claim about the intelligibility of the universe.
