And Romney's understanding failed him because his talking points way overdid the importance — and the current certainty — of whether the attack had arisen in part from protests or had been entirely premeditated.
For all the westernisation visible in Moscow, sometimes understanding simply fails, with grimly surreal effect.
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].
After a while, though, it occurs to you that even a perfect understanding of failed love is the booby prize".
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).
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.
Table 3 indicates that patients with good understanding who fail the test of DMC do so for different reasons according to setting.
An example of a double dissocation would be a pair of patients, one who has a normal capacity for understanding spoken words, but fails to understand written ones, and another who understands written words but not spoken ones).
