Can you know the whole by observing the part? If you are grasping the whole by the part, then you're not observing the part indeed: you're observing the whole from a specific viewpoint. As long as a viewpoint necessarily leads to another viewpoint, you're grasping the whole.
A true part doesn't allow to know the other parts. It is necessary but not sufficient to know the whole. However the part conveys some information about the whole which can be classified in two categories: one, definite but limited knowledge about the whole; two, reduction of the possible true assertions which can be given about the whole, or which is the same, some information about what the whole is not.
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