Thursday, March 10, 2011

Humans And The Concept Of Understanding

By Jenny Browning


Did you know that animals do not even know that they exist. While us human's judge people instantly and think we are better than others it is a different case with animals. For purpose of discussion let them be referred to as instinctual creatures for now.

Humans on the other hand are more than capable of understanding and hence give a sense of meaning to things. Thus we can figure out if something is bad for us or not and can differentiate between things and give them identity from one another.

Most frequently students are burdened with loads of information. The idea behind it being that they can thus choose what they like and what works for them and what they want to reject.

Questions need to be posed in such a way that they are capable of leading you to increase your depth of understanding although they may confuse you initially. Blind questions are of no use and spoil the subject.

A question should be asked in such a way that it induces thought. They can be subdivided in to three categories: Judgmental, definitive and non-definitive. The easy ones are the definitive questions which have only a straight answer.

Definitive questions get answers that are straight forward and can not have any other solutions how much ever you try to debate up on the topic. As Aristotle said, "A is A".

Some questions are not as easy as definitive questions and need some thought before answering. Some reasoning is required to come out of the confusion to get a clear answer. You may notice some people freeze on being asked such questions because they need to work through a lot of value judgment.

Very often we encounter some very hard judgmental questions which can be answered in a biased fashion too. Thus the best suited answer for these is given by pooling in varied institutional ideas from different walks of life to suite the curiosity and the greater interest of understanding the solution of the question.




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