Likewise, when we grasp a self-evident truth in our mind, we immediately grasp its truth.
After all, when we grasp a physical object like a pencil, the object is independent both of the act of grasping and of the human actor of the grasping (1893, XXIV).
This gloss on the meaning of a right to health broadens the range of actions from the provision of health care to the meeting of the broader set of health needs that arises when we grasp the broader determinants of health.
On Scotus's account, when we grasp some conceptual truth, nothing miraculous or divine happens within us: "the terms, once apprehended and put together, are naturally suited (sunt nati naturaliter) to cause an awareness of the composition's conformity with its terms" (Ord. I.3.1.4 n.269).
And when we grasp and take hold of that truth, we'll find they return the favor.
Only when we grasp its role as a signal function, rather than a thought we identify with, can we allow the feeling to shift naturally to a broader, more compassionate stance.
When we grasp how words and concepts map our realities, and we see the recurring patterns across different scales of reality, we glimpse a visceral understanding of the infinite.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual .-- Carl Sagan.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual..
However, when we grasp the fact that we can never know everything, that so many things are not meant for our understanding at the exact moment of their occurrence, we can finally live in a place of inner peace, without any doubt of the perfection of our experiences.
This general account is found, in almost the same words, in Physics II 3 and Metaphysics V 2. In the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle places the following crucial condition on proper knowledge: we think we have knowledge of a thing only when we have grasped its cause (APost. 71 b 9 11. Cf. APost. 94 a 20).
