{"id":10030,"date":"2023-12-26T19:51:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/hip-glossary-understanding\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T19:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:51:03","slug":"hip-glossary-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/hip-glossary\/hip-glossary-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Glossary: Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding:<\/p>\n<div><strong>Un`der*stand&quot;ing<\/strong>, n. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong>1.<\/strong> The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong>2.<\/strong> An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good <strong>understanding<\/strong> between him and his people. <em>Clarendon.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><strong>3.<\/strong> 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. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty them <strong>understanding<\/strong>. <em>Job xxxii. 8.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The power of perception is that which we call the <strong>understanding<\/strong>. Perception, which we make the act of the <strong>understanding<\/strong>, 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 <strong>understanding<\/strong>, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand. <em>Locke.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In its wider acceptation, <strong>understanding<\/strong> 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. <em>Coleridge.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><strong>4.<\/strong> 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 <em>reason<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Source:websters1913dictionary<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding: Un`der*stand&quot;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hip-glossary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}