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But Munro writes about incompleteness—the impossibility of completing anything, and the fragmentariness of our understanding of other people and even ourselves.

From Time • Oct. 10, 2013

These modes of description are all affected by the fragmentariness which always belongs to temporal apprehension.

From Recent Tendencies in Ethics by Sorley, William Ritchie

The statue is not only a particle, but an isolated particle, and must first of all divert attention from its fragmentariness.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

But we have found that absolute realism is beset with the difficulty of thus accounting for the fragmentariness and isolation of the individual.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

Bishop Martensen has a fine passage on the fragmentariness of our knowledge, not only of divine providence as a whole, but even of those divine providences that fill up our own lives. 

From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander