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Being able to visualise, and thereby.....comprehend?
by InCityDreams 5y ago
Being able to visualise, and thereby.....comprehend?
- amelius 5y agoBut "comprehend" and "understand" mean the same thing.
- dylan604 5y agoeh, maybe? I understand that a quadrillion dollars is a large number, but I don't comprehend exactly how large of a pile of cash that would be (assuming Benjamins and not Jacksons).
- macintux 5y agoI think, at least in common vernacular, they are indeed different when placed side by side, much like “listen” vs “hear”.
- dylan604 5y agoor "hear" and "comprehend" being the same. Take the phrase "they don't hear that well". Does that mean they cannot actualy hear based on volumes and noise or some sort of hearing problem? Or does that mean they can "hear" just fine but don't comprehend what they are being told? Or that they do comprehend it just fine, but just don't like it being told to them? Now we're getting into idioms territory and less about definition of words and why have two words with the same, but different, meanings.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoWhen people actually talk about quadrillion dollars, I no longer listen, I only hear.
- dylan604 5y agoI hear that's common in the world of the peasants. Those of use in the 5 Commas club enjoy those reminders, as we try to comprehend what it would be like to have so little. It's beyond our understanding though
- InCityDreams 5y agoAnd that was my point. I understand those numbers better as i have a better visualisation of them. We are going to a beach tomorrow. There are trees behind us. My kid, and his friends, have a better idea of the stars than ever before - they'll be even more impressed at the beach.
- dylan604 5y agoI always liked the idea of "Look at all of the land you can see around you. That's just a fraction of the land. Of all of the land on Earth, it is just a fraction of the surface. The rest is water." From a kid's perspective, water just got huge.