Austerity proponents depend on the argument that substantial cuts to federal spending moved the economy to a recovery in 1921, but this understanding fails on multiple counts.
After a while, though, it occurs to you that even a perfect understanding of failed love is the booby prize".
France provided the Serbs with munitions and supplies, while Russia and the United Kingdom "expressed understanding" but failed to help.
For the psychiatric patients with good understanding who failed the capacity test, almost all had deficits in appreciation despite good reasoning.
The effect is to show a mind knowing what is involved in an act of understanding something, yet also knowing how easily understanding can fail.
However, Wynne and others have repeatedly shown that efforts to 'educate' the public by decreasing 'deficits' in their understanding typically fail because the 'expert' view conflicts with local people's knowledge and understanding [4,13].
And "understanding", again, is the key word for the future: understanding that one version of capitalism has failed, understanding that we have to boost banks' reserves, regulate their borrowing, get a handle on the casino markets that stretch from Shanghai to Leadenhall Street.
For all the westernisation visible in Moscow, sometimes understanding simply fails, with grimly surreal effect.
Indeed, Leibniz says that "to do less good than one could is to be lacking in wisdom or in goodness", that the most perfect understanding "cannot fail to act in the most perfect way, and consequently to choose the best" (1710, 201).
Table 3 indicates that patients with good understanding who fail the test of DMC do so for different reasons according to setting.
