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Understanding is to know about something. Things can be known in many different ways and from many different perspectives. For example, you might understand someone's argument at the logical, emotional, social or political level. It is also possible that you will understand all of these elements at the same time. The following are common examples of understanding.
Aesthetic and artistic understanding | Background knowledge | Biased understanding | Commercial awareness – understanding a business and industry | Comprehension | Conceptual understanding | Contextual knowledge | Critical insight | Cultural understanding | Deep understanding | Emotional perception | Empathy and compassion | Empirical knowledge – based on observation | End-to-end understanding | Ethical understanding | Experiential knowledge – based on experience | Financial knowledge | Global awareness | History awareness | Intuition | Know-how | Linguistic understanding | Listening comprehension | Local knowledge | Mathematical and numerical comprehension | Moral understanding | Musical knowledge | Objective Understanding | Partial understanding | Personal understanding | Philosophical insight | Political understanding | Practical knowledge | Psychological perception | Qualitative understanding | Quantitative understanding | Reading comprehension | Reflective understanding | Scientific understanding | Self-awareness | Self-knowledge | Social perception | Spatial intelligence | Structural understanding | Symbolic understanding – meaning of symbols | Systemic understanding – knowledge of systems | Technical and technological understanding | Understanding why | Visual comprehension | Working understanding – similar to know-how |
Systemic understanding is understanding of complex things known as systems where there are many paths of cause and effect such that change can produce unintended consequences.Comprehension has to do with processing information such as listening, reading and visual comprehension.Intuition is understanding where you can't identify its source such that it appears to be a non-conscious process. This is an important type of high speed thinking that has interesting dimensions.Know-how is the ability to do things. Objective understanding is the ability to understand universal or observable things beyond your personal experience or opinion.Spatial intelligence is the ability to understand 3d space over time.Structural understanding is knowledge of how things fit together in the big picture.Different types of understanding produce different results. For example, linguistically and culturally peanuts are known as nuts but are scientifically understood as legumes.Next read: Examples of Knowledge
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