Knowledge grows all the time, but that doesn't mean that we gain understanding.
Otherwise, his belief that we gain so much when we share our talents never faltered.
"So it's my intent, by issuing this change in procedures, that we gain this trust back".
I feel that we gain little by publicly listing our grievances, and by naming names.
Those who spread rumours that we gain a lot of money ignore or do not know these facts".
He sets out what today we'd call the theory of empiricism – the idea that we gain knowledge of the world through our senses.
It is in walking the Sufi tariqa that we gain the experience of applying the chemical reagents to the metal, or following the proper diet and medical regimen.
For him, this model involved "the myth of presence", the supposition that we gain our best understanding of something when it - and it alone - is present to consciousness.
It is through these collaborations that we gain cultural understanding and, at times, hear of the limitations that they're dealing with.
"It is in our relations with other people," he remarks, "that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable".
I wanted to see if I could understand how I personally feel about being in one – about the balance between the things that we gain from being in a large group of people, and the things we lose.
