Scientific knowledge is often incomplete, some things (for example people, or economies) are too complex to be fully predictable right now, and may always remain so.
(3) Matter is the subject of generation and corruption and has the property of being an incomplete and imperfect thing in potency to being a complete thing.
That it was incomplete is one thing.
"Behind the Candelabra" shows that while the legal recognition and social acceptance of gay marriage may be a new (and as yet incomplete) phenomenon, the thing itself, in all but name, has been around for a long time.
"The following is an incomplete list of things that alarm horses," one section warned.
Efforts to identify real nonlinear thresholds seem mired in uncertainty and incomplete characterization of things like ice-sheet dynamics.
It was the urge towards leaving things incomplete – to not finish projects (including life itself) properly – that led Woolf to write a very particular kind of fiction, and that led both her and Benjamin to the essay, the perennially unfinished form.
People complain that she leaves things incomplete, takes liberties, should be edited more and so on, but, dammit, she remains by far the most natural and most challenging novelist contemporary Britain has at hand to help imagine itself into what it's becoming.
Any way he approached it, there would be countless tiny gaps in a portrait of the city, holes that would render the thing fatally incomplete.
Knowing the data on S, then, gives us only incomplete information about how things will go for the particle.
