Modern philosophy has reached a more satisfactory understanding of the importance of language, language games and grammar, in the sense of the informal logic of language games, than was available to Freud.

Their ruination and destruction left crucial questions unanswered, and made it impossible in many ways to gather a satisfactory understanding of the Roman world from them.

Additionally, a satisfactory theoretical understanding of hadron substructure had to be developed, culminating in the quark model.

Roughly half of the patients had a satisfactory understanding of their condition; half wanted more.

It is, according to those in the know, the best place on Long Island to negotiate a settlement, reach a mutually satisfactory understanding or formulate a killer strategy.

You gave me a satisfactory understanding of the crimes that you intended to commit.

"If the aliens do not seem to be reaching a satisfactory understanding with us-if we begin to entertain any doubts-we can erect trebuchets and batter the flier to pieces."

Despite the pilot's determination to resign, he was still on duty, he and Mr. Sparling having come to a satisfactory understanding.

There they nearly perish, but they save their marriage by winning their way through to a satisfactory mutual understanding.

Quantum logic also provides a satisfactory understanding of density matrices.