(August 31, 2016 at 9:05 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(August 31, 2016 at 8:58 am)RozKek Wrote: Anyway, don't you need to be able to comprehend it first before being able to explain it well?
You absolutely have to successfully understand something in order to successfully explain what you understand.
However, you are able to successfully understand something without being even remotely capable of explaining it. My brain gets these mixed up though for some reason.
It's kind of like how all dogs are animals but not all animals are dogs. In this analogy then: explanation is to comprehension as dogs are to animals.
That seems really odd. From what I've heard, it's said that if you can't explain something, you don't understand it yourself. However it might just be one of those cliché quotes.
