" I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" Thomas A. Edison

but we can considere a failure in two ways ; local and the global one.

what do you mean by "local nad global failure"?

partial and holistic

when partial and when holistic?

holistic as a failure to reach the goal in the time that we are given , to not find the proper way , to look for it in wrong area , but edison was an inventor , I related this sentece to life of ordinary man

local failure is when your kitchen is burning...
global failure is when atomic bombs are falling onto the cities...

thanks dean.now it's all clear