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RE: Explaining/Comprehending: Another random poll.
August 31, 2016 at 9:08 am
(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.
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August 31, 2016 at 9:12 am
(August 31, 2016 at 9:08 am)Jesster Wrote: (August 31, 2016 at 9:02 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Do you consider yourself more skilled at understanding stuff or explaining stuff?
Forget it. Either you can't explain this well or I can't understand it.
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RE: Explaining/Comprehending: Another random poll.
August 31, 2016 at 9:39 am
I can't think of anything I understand that I can't explain.
My understanding of things comes from the fact I've been able to explain the logic of it to myself.
Can you give an example of something you understand but can't explain, or an instance of it happening?
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
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