Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 21

But that knowledge which sees in all beings various entities of distinct kinds as different from one another, know that knowledge as Râjasika.

This mode of knowledge is described here as stopping at the surface, seeing only real difference, missing what connects it.

Krishna names this as a real, genuine kind of perception, just an incomplete one. Passion-mode knowledge sees parts clearly but misses the whole they're part of.