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greymalik ◴[01 Sep 25 16:06 UTC] No.45093887[source]▶

It feels circular. How is learning different from understanding? How is understanding different from knowledge? I’m supposed to understand before I learn. How do I understand if not through learning? I’m supposed to understand to gain knowledge. Isn’t knowledge understanding?

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1. JeliHacker ◴[01 Sep 25 19:45 UTC] No.45095967[source]▶

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Mortimer Adler's How To Read A Book talks about "reading for understanding" a lot. By understanding, he means getting a holistic feel for the content. Grokking, if you will. An analogy is reading a newspaper article on what happened in Gaza yesterday versus reading a 500-page book on the history of Palestine and writing a report on it. In the first example you are reading for facts (knowledge), in the second you are reading for understanding

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Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)