The phrase "a type of understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different forms or categories of comprehension or insight regarding a subject.
Example: "Her explanation provided a type of understanding that was previously lacking in the discussion."
Alternatives: "a form of comprehension" or "a kind of insight."
Perception, therefore, reveals itself as an implicit preption of the body to respond and act, and a type of understanding springs from it whose nature is in fact eminently pragmatic and does not in itself determine any "semantic" representation of the object.
And through the paintings, I've gotten to know my father -- there's a type of understanding and knowledge that comes from that".. His training as a therapist (he has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan) has also helped him come to terms with his father's suicide.
After all, if all achievements are finally valuable, and understanding is itself a type of cognitive achievement, then understanding will be finally valuable too, unlike knowledge on this view.
Taken together, a profound experimental data set has been generated which allows to approach a systems biology type of understanding of antioxidant defence in photosynthesising cells in the near future.
WASHINGTON -- New findings from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova critical for studying the dark energy that astronomers think pervades the universe.
New findings from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova that is critical for studying the dark energy that astronomers think pervades the universe.
In such an egalitarian epistemology, each type of understanding is equally possible.
Such a type of mapping might be useful in understanding the functional diversities of biologically active peptides.
