The phrase "acts of understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions or behaviors that demonstrate comprehension or insight into a situation or concept.
Example: "The teacher emphasized the importance of acts of understanding in fostering a supportive learning environment."
Alternatives: "demonstrations of understanding" or "expressions of comprehension".
They also became acts of understanding a form of address that satisfied me, or that I found more fulfilling.
For where the mental concepts, i.e., the acts of understanding (intellectus), are considered to be signs themselves, the Aristotelian definition of significare (signifying) as to constitute an understanding (constituere intellectum) can no longer be regarded as adequate.
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.
The abundance of data will help the researchers discern among the brain's basic functions and the physical act of understanding.
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.
Her drawings of the seasons and of the animals blowing the winds onto the earth's surface (e.g. a lobster) are a reminder that mapping--whether accurate or not--is still an act of understanding.
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.
If, as Ong said about the written word, "It separates the knower from the known," and we are able to share enormous swathes of information without comprehension, then social media has further separated the act of understanding from knowledge.
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.
