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(disambiguation).
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Understanding (also called intellection) 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. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding. Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge sufficient to support intelligent behavior.[1]
An understanding is the limit of a conceptualization. To understand something is to have conceptualized it to a given measure.
Contents
1 Examples
2 Understanding as a model
3 Components of understanding o 3.1 Cognition and affect
4 Religious perspectives
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Examples
1. One understands the weather if one is able to predict and to give an explanation of some of its features, etc.
2. A psychiatrist understands another person 's anxieties if he/she knows that person 's anxieties, their causes, and can give useful advice on how to cope with the anxiety.
3. A person understands a command if he/she knows who gave it, what is expected by the issuer, and whether the command is legitimate, and whether one understands the speaker
(see 4).
4. One understands a reasoning, an argument, or a language if one can consciously reproduce the information content conveyed by the message.
5. One understands a mathematical concept if one can solve problems using it, especially problems that are not similar to what one has seen before.
Understanding as a model
Gregory Chaitin, a noted computer scientist, propounds a view that comprehension is a kind of data compression.[2] In his essay "The
References: 2. Chaitin, Gregory (2006), The Limits Of Reason External links