Anti-Federalists charged that the Constitution was so difficult to read that it amounted to a conspiracy against the understanding of a plain man, that it was willfully incomprehensible.
Thus, although he describes faith as "believing against the understanding," he is careful to distinguish the content of religious belief from mere "nonsense".
Analysis of the usability of an interactive system requires both an understanding of how the system is to be used and a means of assessing the system against that understanding.
We've had to carefully reinforce the goals and direction Spencer wants for his own career long-term and we weigh each opportunity against that understanding.
By framing the validation process as checking the understanding of the reviewer against the understanding of the author(s), we introduced an intractable epistemological question: who is epistemically authoritative in deciding which understanding was "really" correct?
(60-year old male diabetes patient in Yaounde) The above quote raises the issue of compliance to treating diabetes as raised by health care providers, against the understanding of people with diabetes.
Although she doesn't discuss Okin's work explicitly, Iris Marion Young argues against this way of understanding power, which she refers to as a distributive model of power.
But a debate in which one side claims to be arguing from principle and the other side from pragmatism eventually works against the latter (understanding this was one of the main secrets to Reagan's success).
The pioneers of the "calculus reform movement" known as the Harvard Calculus Consortium defended the necessity of conceptual understanding against procedural understanding; for this reason, they suggested that instructional context should be enhanced with multiple representations and should be supported with technology (Hughes-Hallett 1991; Vlachos & Kehagias, 2000).
Nevertheless, as the case studies will illustrate, it is against these understandings of childhood that young carers give meaning to their circumstances as they manage their caregiving, head-of-household duties and education.
