The phrase "act of understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process or instance of comprehending something, often in a philosophical or cognitive context.
Example: "The act of understanding the complexities of human emotions is essential for effective communication."
Alternatives: "process of comprehension" or "instance of grasping".
Therefore, it is possible for the self-thinking divine essence to understand itself in a single act of understanding so perfectly that this act of understanding not only understands the divine essence as it is in itself, but also in respect of all possible ways in which it can be imperfectly participated by any finite creature.
But the diversity of the objects of an act of understanding need not diversify the act itself (as when understanding the Pythagorean theorem we understand both squares and triangles).
The effect is to show a mind knowing what is involved in an act of understanding something, yet also knowing how easily understanding can fail.
All of them dramatise the act of understanding the strange world beyond his eyes – you can look long and hard, for example, at his pair of "reclining heads" of his wife Julia, from the mid-1990s, stepping forward and back from the wall, before the expressive energies of his broad, up-close brushstrokes resolve themselves into something fleshy and living.
More and more with each act of understanding it approaches the understanding of the universe of beings, a universe that is its universe, which it possesses as a capacity of its own nature.
But a simple act of understanding, by which we simply understand something without thinking it to be somehow, that is, without attributing anything to it, cannot be false.
They also became acts of understanding a form of address that satisfied me, or that I found more fulfilling.
On screen, that feels almost radical; the act of being understanding a complicated woman.
Mr Blair, who had been anxious that Britain should not be left behind in building a new relationship with Mr Putin, said Britain could act as a "bridge of understanding" between Russia and Europe, and Russia and the US.
The cards, of which she was very proud, read: Marilyn Smith, MSW Psychotherapist When I was through they read: Marilyn Smith, MSW Psycho But this was more an act of mischief than of understanding.
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.
