Understanding (...) is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object.
An understanding is the limit of a conceptualisation. To understand something is to have conceptualised it to a given measure.
An understanding is the limit of a conceptualisation. To understand something is to have conceptualised it to a given measure.
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Is understanding definable?
It is difficult to define understanding. (...) Whatever definition is proposed, we can still ask how it is that we understand the thing that is featured in the definition: we can never satisfactorily define a concept, still less use it to explain understanding.
Thomas Edison believed that (...) when one acknowledges that she/he stands below someone or something else, she/he makes him/herself receptive to obtain and retain information from it, thereby allowing for understanding to occur.
It may be more convenient to use an operational or behavioural definition, that is, to say that somebody who reacts appropriately to X understands X.
It is difficult to define understanding. (...) Whatever definition is proposed, we can still ask how it is that we understand the thing that is featured in the definition: we can never satisfactorily define a concept, still less use it to explain understanding.
Thomas Edison believed that (...) when one acknowledges that she/he stands below someone or something else, she/he makes him/herself receptive to obtain and retain information from it, thereby allowing for understanding to occur.
It may be more convenient to use an operational or behavioural definition, that is, to say that somebody who reacts appropriately to X understands X.
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“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” (Robert McCloskey)
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” (Elbert Hubbard)
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” (Chinese Proverb)
* Photo by Paulo Santos“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
Speech is one symptom of Affection
Speech is one symptom of Affection
And Silence one—
The perfectest communication
Is heard of none—
Exists and its indorsement
Is had within—
Behold, said the Apostle,
Yet had not seen!
Emily Dickinson
