The phrase "against understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a situation or action that opposes or contradicts comprehension or clarity.
Example: "His arguments were so convoluted that they seemed to be against understanding rather than promoting it."
Alternatives: "contrary to comprehension" or "opposed to clarity".
The programme sought to develop Birt and Jay's ideas that television must acquire a 'mission to explain' and rid itself of its 'bias against understanding'.
Even saddled with an inappropriate laughter track (which Sorkin rightly argued against, understanding that this was a sitcom without the traditional beats), Sports Night shines.
For the standard objections against understanding normativity as a nonnatural property concern our inability to say anything further about that nonnatural property itself and about our ability to grasp that property (see, e.g., M. Smith 1994, pp. 21 25).
This large amount of highly homologous tandemly repeated DNA presents an obstacle against understanding the organization of chromatin domains at human centromeres.
An insidious paradox works against understanding dementia.
There has never been such a bias against understanding since.
For the development of new treatment strategies against cancer, understanding signaling networks and their changes upon drug response is a promising approach to identify new drug targets and biomarker profiles.
As antiviral prophylaxis and treatment are relevant for future interventions against influenza, understanding the implications of NI resistance and the dynamics of its spread is essential.
Dubbed a "pusher" (returns everything, waits for his opponent to make a mistake), Gilbert was respected for his tenacity and his ability to turn his opponents' games against them by understanding their games better than they did.
While there are a lot of similarities in losing an animal loved one and a human loved one, "pet owners are really up against people not understanding how tough that loss can be, and how all of your emotions are affected," Pich said.
The fact that repellent and irritant actions were first documented more than 60 years ago [1] but given no importance, illustrates how lack of appropriate labels and a conceptual framework of multiple chemical actions can work against knowledge and understanding.
