The phrase "activity of understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing cognitive processes, learning, or comprehension.
Example: "The activity of understanding complex theories requires both time and effort from the learner."
Alternatives: "process of comprehension" or "act of grasping".
The approach of these projects (like our own Kosovo Science for Change) draws on critical pedagogies like that of 1960s educator Paulo Freire, for whom learning was the co-operative activity of understanding how our lived experience is constructed, and how to make a difference in the world.
Only through assertion is the synthesizing activity of understanding and interpretation brought to language.
Through the synthesizing activity of understanding, the world is disclosed as a totality of meaning, a space in which Dasein is at home.
In 75.2 he proved that the human soul is a subsistent because it has an activity that pertains to it without the use of a corporeal organ, namely, the activity of understanding in intellect.
The capacity to mentalize, defined as "… the activity of understanding behavior in relation to mental states such as thoughts and feelings" [ 41], develops optimally in the context of a relationship with a stable attachment.
The fundamental idea of my proof theory is none other than to describe the activity of our understanding, to make a protocol of the rules according to which our thinking actually proceeds" (Hilbert, 1928, 475).
The point here is not merely the earlier, empirical observation that the rational activity of the understanding does not generate an impulse in the absence of an expectation of pain or pleasure.
Herbart rejects Kant's grounding of transcendental apperception in the a priori synthetic activity of the Understanding, because (a) he rejects the very idea of psychological faculties, and (b) tries to give his account entirely in a posteriori terms.
In this article from 1891, Stumpf reiterates the main criticism that he addressed to Kant in his Raumbuch, namely "the doctrine of space as a subjective form and the Kantian conception of sensations as amorphous and unstructured matter designed to support the synthetic and unifying activity of the understanding".
This work has highlighted the benefits of in vivo physiology, i.e. live-monitoring of neural activity, for understanding the role of neural circuits in local information processing.
The methods, findings, and theory constitute a new approach of using brain activity for understanding how object concepts are represented in the mind.
