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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

He who reads this book will observe at once its fragmentary nature; but only after some study will perceive that the fragmentariness lies in the expression more than in the thought.

From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise

In both cases with a limitation caused by the externality and fragmentariness of the facts and the need of interpreting them through our own conscious experiences.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

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

It is true that philosophy endeavours to correct this fragmentariness by starting from the unity of the whole.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir