"discuss and understand" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to encourage someone to take the time to consider a topic and come to a mutual understanding. For example, "Let's take the time to discuss and understand the situation before making any snap decisions."
Based on this fact, it is important to discuss and understand the feasible setup parameters to achieve the optimum radiation-collection-efficiency of a fixed-type system.
"International pressure is very important to us because we want a change in policy and the way people discuss and understand what the army does - war crimes are committed every day, the settlements are getting bigger and 18-year-old kids are sent to guard them".
Intersectionality, then, was my attempt to make feminism, anti-racist activism, and anti-discrimination law do what I thought they should — highlight the multiple avenues through which racial and gender oppression were experienced so that the problems would be easier to discuss and understand.
However, surprisingly, the information about the soft tissues of bonobos is very scarce, making it difficult to discuss and understand human evolution.
Systems of education must discuss and understand their own raison d'être from a sophisticated philosophical and educational perspective, also taking thoroughly into account a future perspective, involving a spectrum of potential futures.
These proceedings are a continuation of the series of International Conferences in Germany entitled "Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils". The primary objective is to discuss and understand unsaturated soil behaviour such that engineered activities are made better with times in terms of judgement and quality.
These proposals have been classified generically as Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) and share common concepts and terms that need to be abstracted, discussed and understood.
Far less discussed, and understood, was the role of his controversial 2013 decision to close nearly 50 public schools — the most schools closed in one city in a single year in modern U.S. history.
These choices should be made more explicit, discussed, and understood.
This article seeks to shift the focus by exploring how human rights were discussed and understood in the East Bloc from the mid-1960s on, using the German Democratic Republic as a case study.
