"adopt an understanding" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to willingly accept or take on a particular perspective or interpretation of something. You can use it to describe someone's attitude towards a certain topic or issue. Example: "It's important for us to adopt an understanding of different cultures and beliefs, rather than judging them based on our own preconceived notions."
Foot has since abandoned her earlier externalism and adopted an understanding of practical reason which is thoroughly moralized.
In this way, those who recommend adopting an understanding of representation as advocacy provide a theoretical tool to those who wish to explain how non-state actors "represent".
In this commentary we adopt a weak understanding of 'alignment', stressing that relevant links between research and policy interests need to be established and we do not intend to imply that research questions should be fully tuned towards policy priorities.
This stance distanced him from more radical deists like Toland, and he reinforced this position by also adopting an elitist understanding of the role of religion in society.
Skolem's Paradox shows that adopting an algebraic understanding of the set-theoretic axioms also doesn't force us to accept uncountable sets, since we can always interpret these axioms as applying to a model that's only countable.
The approach adopted in this research follows the previous work of Dickinson [ 29], Williams and Sullivan [ 30] and Sullivan et al [ 24], which all adopt an interpretive approach to understanding the concept of collaboration more generally.
(Leibniz will, however, adopt a more liberal understanding of sense experience, so that this is not mooted tout court).
Perhaps dolphins will teach us enough about ourselves so that we can learn to adopt a more humble understanding of our position in the biosphere.
This encourages countries to adopt a framework of understanding based upon analysis of six sub-systems: health service delivery, health workforce, health information systems, access to essential medicines, health systems financing and leadership and governance.
This parallel between organismal ecology and the tumor microenvironment means that there are unrealized opportunities for adopting measures from ecology for understanding the dynamics and selective pressures on a tumor, which may lead to improved cancer prognosis, prediction, risk stratification and therapeutics.
