Unit
"The ability to regard entities as units
is man’s distinctive method of cognition,
which other living species are unable to follow."
"A unit is an existent regarded as a separate member of a group of two or more similar members. (Two stones are two units; so are two square feet of ground, if regarded as distinct parts of a continuous stretch of ground.) Note that the concept “unit” involves an act of consciousness (a selective focus, a certain way of regarding things), but that it is not an arbitrary creation of consciousness: it is a method of identification or classification according to the attributes which a consciousness observes in reality. This method permits any number of classifications and cross-classifications: one may classify things according to their shape or color or weight or size or atomic structure; but the criterion of classification is not invented, it is perceived in reality. Thus the concept “unit” is a bridge between metaphysics and epistemology: units do not exist qua units, what exists are things, but units are things viewed by a consciousness in certain existing relationships. . ."
Epistemology
"Epistemology is a science devoted to the discovery of the proper methods of acquiring and validating knowledge."
kəmˈplisit/
adjective
- involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.
"all of these people are complicit in some criminal conspiracy"