Understanding is one of the essential aspects in the process of knowledge on the part of the subject. A faculty that shows the relationship between the mind and the object through the exercise of knowledge. The knowledge that is the basis of understanding is an immanent action whose origin and end are found in the subject himself. Understanding implies paying attention to everything to understand the essential root.
We are now dealing with what we might call understanding in the strict sense, that is, with what it means to understand experience beyond the intuitive level. What is beyond intuition is thought. It is one thing to intuit, that is, to see, hear, touch, etc. and another thing is to think about what we see, hear, touch, etc. At the moment of analyzing thought, we have the possibility that it simplifies the work: thought, unlike intuition, can be fully expressed in words. Without a doubt, it is possible to think without words, and we will not enter here if it is possible to think something without words that cannot be adequately expressed in words. In practice, the fact that all the thoughts that interest us can, in fact, be expressed in words is enough.
According to the basic meaning of these terms, the person understood is one capable of understanding the details of a subject, of discerning its composition by isolating the factors or elements that constitute or forming a whole, of perceiving the relationship between these components and, therefore therefore, they both understand or grasp the meaning of the matter.
This can be illustrated with language. For a person to understand what is spoken in a certain language, he or she must be able to distinguish the individual words that make up sentences, know their meaning, and see how they relate to each other. However, although the person can basically understand what has been said, understanding can go beyond simple understanding. It means obtaining the true meaning and significance of the message, with the ability to evaluate it, benefit from it, and know the action it demands.
The reflection on one's own understanding has been the object of philosophical reflection by showing the epistemology that shows the capacity of the philosopher to be admired of this human faculty that brings great freedom to existence. And it is that understanding allows us to increase awareness of existence by having the ability to reflect on our own actions and their consequences. This reflection is also based on ethics.
