Definition of Understanding

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in the first Critique, the faculty concerned with actively producing knowledge by means of concepts. This is quite similar to what is normally called the mind. It gives rise to the logical perspective, which enables us to compare concepts with each other, and to the empirical perspective (where it is also called judgment), which enables us to combine concepts with intuitions in order to produce empirical knowledge. The first Critique examines the form of our cognitions in order to construct a system based on the faculty of understanding (= the theoretical standpoint). (Cf. sensibility.)

[A230/B283] The source of concepts; opposed to sensibility, the source of intuitions. The human understanding limits our possible experience (and thus thought and knowledge) to discursive experience; as the source of concepts, our understanding is such that we can only think through concepts (i.e., discursively), although beings with different forms of understanding may well think differently. "The understanding, in accordance with the subjective and formal conditions of sensibility as well as of apperception, prescribes a priori to experience in general the rules which alone make experience possible. Other forms of intuition than space and time, other forms of understanding that the discursive forms of thought, or of knowledge through concepts, even if they should be possible, we cannot render in any way conceivable and comprehensible to ourselves; and even assuming that we could do so, they still would not belong to [our] experience." (Concepts as rules for combining intuitions; their "representational content" is specified in terms of their being a rule.)

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(n.)
The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
  

(n.)
The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
  

(n.)
Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
  

(n.)
An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
  

(a.)
Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
  

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understanding
\un`der*stand"ing\, a. knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
understanding
\un`der*stand"ing\, n.
1. the act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
2. an agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another. he hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people.
3. the power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends. there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the almighty them understanding. i. 8. the power of perception is that which we call the understanding. perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts: 1. the perception of ideas in our mind; 2. the perception of the signification of signs; 3. the perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. all these are attributed to the understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand. in its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension.
4. specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. in this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason. i use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which "verstand" is now employed by the germans. w. hamilton.

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Dealledigaeth = n. understanding, comprehension

Deallt = n. understanding

Dealltwriaeth = n. understanding, comprehension

Dyall = n. the understanding; v. to understand, to comprehend

Gwanbwyll = n. a weak understanding

Understanding, (n.)

A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

His understanding was so keen
That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen,
He could interpret without fail
If he was in or out of jail.
He wrote at Inspiration's call
Deep disquisitions on them all,
Then, pent at last in an asylum,
Performed the service to compile 'em.
So great a writer, all men swore,
They never had not read before.

Jorrock Wormley
  

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Noun
1. the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
(synonym) apprehension, discernment, savvy
(hypernym) knowing
(hyponym) comprehension
(derivation) understand, realize, realise, see
2. the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers"
(synonym) agreement
(hypernym) statement
(hyponym) conspiracy, confederacy
(part-meronym) condition, term
3. an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding"
(synonym) sympathy
(hypernym) inclination, disposition, tendency
(derivation) sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise, understand
4. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"
(synonym) reason, intellect
(hypernym) faculty, mental faculty, module

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Adjective
1. characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; "an understanding friend"
(similar) perceptive

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Verb
1. know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"
(hyponym) get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
(derivation) understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy
2. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea"
(synonym) realize, realise, see
(hyponym) perceive
(verb-group) visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image
(derivation) understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy
3. make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
(synonym) read, interpret, translate
4. believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"
(synonym) infer
(hypernym) believe
5. be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!"
(synonym) sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise
(derivation) sympathy, understanding

Fear of knowledge

One must have a thorough understanding of one’s dreams if one is not to be troubled by them …
  

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