Semi-structured interviews provided data for the analysis, and comprehensive understanding was arrived at by first adopting an open-minded approach to the transcripts and by working at three analytical levels.
With them, the most abstracted concepts, at which the understanding naturally arrives last of all, constitute their starting point, and the reason is that the method of the mathematicians, which they wish to imitate throughout, is firmly fixed in their minds.
It is on this basis that Gadamer argues against there being any method or technique for achieving understanding or arriving at truth.
Despite the known limitations of the simplified analytical models and close form solutions, its usefulness is emphasized to develop fundamental understanding for arriving at sound engineering judgment for conducting blast experiments in a safe manner.
I don't expect this understanding to arrive in my lifetime.
I say this not to lay blame or look backwards, but because it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we'll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament.
"No understanding has been arrived at," she said at a news conference in London, referring to negotiations with General Musharraf that could lead to his resigning as army chief and running for re-election as president, and Ms. Bhutto's returning to run for prime minister.
According to Lennie Goodings, publisher of Virago, the suggestion that in 1857 "bad girls, smut and perversion were essentially invented in the eyes of the law is both a fascinating story and, crucially, an important way of understanding how we arrived at our ideas of normalcy and deviancy – ideas which are with us to this day".
Understanding how we arrived in this situation, at this place and time, is essential for finding a path forward.
If we take President Obama at his word when he said Tuesday "it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we'll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament," some forensic accounting is in order as we evaluate our current fiscal and budget priorities.
