"understand otherwise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone should take the necessary measures to understand something that has not been made clear. For example: "If you don't understand the instructions, please ask the teacher; understand otherwise you may miss important information."
"Even at a young age, she helped me understand things I never would have been able to understand otherwise.
Concepts are obviously subject to the type-token distinction, which enables one to understand otherwise peculiar sentences such as John's concept of God is different from Mary's.
Nevertheless, there are many statements in Buddhist scriptures and treatises that are hard to understand otherwise than as ethical claims.
Because if they read fiction they understand another human being that they cannot understand otherwise.
Don't make things too technical or hard for them to understand otherwise they won't learn anything.
Also reading the manual will educate you on the various terminologies that you may not understand otherwise.
Even so, some American diplomats understood otherwise and did not appear very concerned.
We have a crisis until the government of Sweden understands otherwise".
Whatever is put in place must be clear, as user friendly as possible and well understood, otherwise it will not be used Bateman: I would argue that there's also a need to educate and raise awareness of the real benefits of technology adoption.
That it is generally understood otherwise and even exploited ("Anorexia: Not just for suicidal teenage white girls anymore" read the home page of Anorexic Nation, now a disabled site, the real purpose of which was to push diet drugs) is a source of both resentment and secret satisfaction to the true pro-ana community.
"The ultimate decision as to where the balance of the public interest lies is a matter for the courts and not for the executive – and any [foreign] country providing intelligence to the UK which understood otherwise would be labouring under a fundamental misapprehension," Vassall-Adams said.
