understand

it takes a great deal of knowledge to 'understand' one thing. A statement has to be integrated into a greater collection of knowledge in order for the relations of understanding to be formed. And the knowledge of a single statement has to be integrated into a greater field of knowledge concerning the central features of the subject for the intelligent entity to truly understand the statement. It takes a great deal of knowledge about many different things to 'understand' one kind of thing. It takes a knowledge of a great many things to verify a statement about one thing. In order for the knowledge represented by a statement to be verified and comprehended it has to be related to, and integrated with, a great many other statements concerning the primary subject matter. It is necessary to see how the primary subject matter may be used in many different kinds of thoughts to be able to understand it. In fact, I believe that all understanding is essentially a form of imaginative projection, where you project previously formed ideas onto an ongoing situation which is recognized or thought to share some characteristics with the projected ideas. I feel that relations of understanding cannot be appreciated out of context. The basic rule of thumb is that it takes knowledge of many things to understand one thing. back to Jim Bromer Theory