* Isolation Aphasia, also known as Mixed Transcortical Aphasia, is a type of disturbance in language skill that causes the inability to comprehend what is being said to you or the difficulty in creating speech with meaning without affecting the ability to recite what has been said and to acquire newly presented words.

Expressive aphasia contrasts with receptive aphasia, which is characterized by a patient's inability to comprehend language or speak with appropriately meaningful words.

Most notably in " The Colour Out of Space ", the inability of science to comprehend a contaminated meteorite leads to horror.

Apraxia should not be confused with ataxia, a lack of coordination of movements ; aphasia, an inability to produce and / or comprehend language ; abulia, the lack of desire to carry out an action ; or allochiria, in which patients perceive stimuli to one side of the body as occurring on the other.

This is seen most poignantly in " The Body " when her inability to comprehend Buffy's mother's death leads to inappropriate remarks which at first make others angry, but then allow for catharsis and comfort.

Since unanimity may be difficult to achieve, especially in large groups, or unanimity may be the result of coercion, fear, undue persuasive power or eloquence, inability to comprehend alternatives, or plain impatience with the process of debate, consensus decision making bodies may use an alternative benchmark of consensus.

The resultant paradox is famously articulated by Moshe Chaim Luzzatto ( Derekh Hashem I: 1: 5 ), describing the dichotomy as arising out of our inability to comprehend the idea of absolute unity:

Furthermore, even though individuals might be capable of accessing the Internet, many are thwarted by barriers to entry such as a lack of means to infrastructure or the inability to comprehend the information that the Internet provides.

Singer applies the same logic to animals: for example, animals cannot comprehend a political candidate's platform then express a preference for one of the candidates ( just as men cannot bear children ), thus in democratic society, the only species that should have the right to vote is a species that has an ability to vote effectively ( and even then, the children of that species, who are similar to animals in their inability to comprehend the differences between political candidates, are not given the right to vote, just as animals aren't -- yet this is no reason to deprive children and animals of other types of rights such as the right not to be molested or wantonly killed, as Singer argues ); this is not the same as speciesism or ageism or ( as in the example regarding the right to give birth ) genderism, it is a mere concession to reality and the characteristics possessed by each species ( or gender, or adults versus children ).

* an inability to comprehend the social consequences of one's own actions, possibly due in part to a lack of empathy.

The inability of the Citizen and Wife to comprehend how they are satirized, or to understand the main plot, allows the audience to laugh at itself, even as it admits its complicity with the Citizen's boorish tastes.

As an unintelligent narrator, Victor ( through his inability to comprehend his situation ), underlines how " the world of celebrity in Glamorama is inescapable ".

' He argues that the main obstacle to discussion was " an inability to comprehend the event.

The absence of these structures explains, in part, the behaviors Piaget had previously described as egocentric and animistic, for example an inability to comprehend that another individual may have different emotional responses to similar experiences.

It appears almost contradictory that the Christian God, as revealed in the Bible, is often described in terms of his supreme transcendence and the inability of limited, finite man to comprehend and know the God who is unlimited and infinite-the contradiction being that even this knowledge can be known by mankind and recorded in scripture.

The symptoms show great variation but typically include an initial state of " daze ", with some constriction of the field of consciousness and narrowing of attention, inability to comprehend stimuli, and disorientation.

When Lucas confesses his actions at the diner, Markus, despite being emotionally wracked, worries for his brother, as well as the current state of affairs ; his faith and inability to comprehend what is happening to Lucas over the course of the game prevents him from seeing past his own fears for Lucas's mental health.

The case histories provide some interesting illustrations of ideological diffusion, embodied in the unwed mother's inability to identify independently a given value system or behavior pattern,, and her subsequent disinclination to assume any individual responsibility for her sexual behavior.

The term Stone Age implies the inability to smelt any ore, the term Bronze Age implies the inability to smelt iron ore and the term Iron Age implies the ability to manufacture artifacts in any of the three types of hard material.

One reason for the hero-as-self interpretation of stories and myths is the human inability to view the world from any perspective but a personal one.

Possible opportunity costs of a city's decision to build a hospital on its vacant land are the loss of the land for a sporting center, or the inability to use the land for a parking lot, or the money that could have been made from selling the land, or the loss of any of the various other possible uses — but not all of these in aggregate.

Members of the judiciary are impeached by the President upon a vote by the House of Representatives that is supported by a 2 / 3s majority of all the members on the grounds of proved inability to perform his functions in office ( whether it is infirmity of body or mind or any other cause ) or proved misbehavior by the Commission for the Administration of Justice.

For example, though someone might control a lump of jelly-pudding almost completely, the inability of that pudding to stage any resistance renders that person's power rather unimpressive.

The first emphasis is on the inability of any one agent to affect prices.

Some ( including Albert Einstein ) argue that our inability to predict any more than probabilities is simply due to ignorance.

SSE addressed the core shortcomings of MMX ( inability to mix integer-SIMD ops with any floating-point ops ) by creating a new 128-bit wide register file ( XMM0-XMM7 ) and new SIMD instructions for it.

Comic use is made of Sir's inability to physically carry any actress cast as Cordelia opposite his Lear in the 1983 film of the stage play The Dresser.

Hoover's reasons for his surprising reorganization of the RFC included: the broken health and resignations of Eugene Meyer, Paul Bestor, and Charles Gates Dawes ; the failure of banks to perform their duties to their clientele or to aid American industry ; the country's general lack of confidence in the current board ; and Hoover's inability to find any other man who had the ability and was both nationally respected and available.

As Rivers notes in Instinct and the Unconscious, one manifestation of his lack of visual memory was his inability to visualise any part of the upper floor of the house he lived in until he was five.

Ancient historians give as a reason for Tiberius ' retirement to Capri his inability to endure her any longer.

His inability to obtain troops from any rulers in Ireland, along with his awareness that he would need them when the High King returned in 1014, may explain why Máel Morda sought to obtain troops from rulers outside of Ireland.

In particular, in the broadcast church service near the start of the episode the inability of any of the congregation to recite the Lords prayer correctly was replaced with a request for two girls in the front row to turn off their Sony Walkmans.

There's even a nursery rhyme about war, The Grand Old Duke of York, ridiculing a general for his inability to command any further than marching his men up and down a hill.

" Transaction costs are particularly applicable to " momentum strategies "; a comprehensive 1996 review of the data and studies concluded that even small transaction costs would lead to an inability to capture any excess from such strategies.

The potential loss on a short sale is theoretically unlimited in the event of an unlimited rise in the price of the instrument, however in practice the short seller will be required to post margin or collateral to cover losses, and any inability to do so on a timely basis would cause its broker or counterparty to liquidate the position.

If the integrity of any legal system is called into question often or seriously enough, the society served by that system is likely to experience some degree of disruption or even chaos in its operations as the legal system demonstrates inability to function.

" Disability means inability to engage in any SGA gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death, or has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.

A major aspect of this bias is superstition, which is derived from the inability to acknowledge that coincidences are merely coincidences.

The central aspect of sketches featuring Pat was the inability of others to determine the character's gender.

A common aspect of real-time strategy games is the player's partial limitation or complete inability to see beyond the visibility range of individual game objects that are under their ownership ( typically units and structures ), this concept is controlled by a mechanism known as the Fog of War.

" ( This aspect of our nature is often referred to as the ' Car Crash Syndrome ' or ' Trainwreck Syndrome ', derived from the notorious supposed inability of passersby to ignore such accidents.