Technology fails, it's comprehended.
Kant grants that the mathematical-mechanical mode has an advantage over the metaphysical-dynamical mode, since its fundamental posits can be represented (indeed, "verified" (4:525)) mathematically, whereas he repeatedly admits that the possibility of fundamental forces can never be comprehended, i.e., their possibility can never be rendered certain.
Such failures can be comprehended when the effort is noble.
His behaviour makes no sense unless its evolution is comprehended.
On the positive side, "In these four sciences of Logic, Morals, Criticism, and Politics [i.e., political economy], is comprehended almost everything, which it can any way import us to be acquainted with, or which can tend either to the improvement or ornament of the human mind".
And their evolution may be comprehended only retrospectively.
I don't care if you have to pound your fists on the table and say, "Paulett, I don't think you're comprehending it, I want your full attention, listen to me, this is what I am telling you".
"At first, I was a little skeptical that he was comprehending it," she says.
Realization is comprehending.
I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.
Gray writes that "the US resembles Latin America some decades ago", a fact I am unable to "comprehend", mired in my "Americo-centric" delusions; more accurately, because it is utter nonsense.
