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Thursday, June 14, 2018

What is understanding?

 

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What is understanding? Here is my definition:

 

Understanding is the condition of knowing the core nature of something

 

A person can have surface-level knowledge about something, but they won't have understanding until they know its fundamental essence. Beyond knowing why something is a certain way and how it interacts with other things, a person with understanding will know the relative hierarchy of what's most central to it.

 

 

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