The phrase "understand possibilities" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used as a way to encourage someone to look at the choices available to them, especially when things feel overwhelming or difficult. For example, "When I'm feeling overwhelmed, I try to understand possibilities and figure out the best way forward."
In terms of originality, more attention is needed to understand possibilities potentially provided by interactions between activity categories or 'human' and 'non-human' interactions, including becoming attuned to affordances via new technologies and emerging online performance demonstration sub-arenas in social media.
I was keynote speaker recently for the The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce, and over 200 business executives and civic leaders crowded into this half-day workshop, eager to understand possibilities.
As the mechanisms behind hypoxia-induced malformations are better understood, possibilities exist for potential cellular-based and molecular or anti-oxidant therapies that can be employed in at-risk populations during early embryonic development before malformations are generated.
Our inquiry focuses on understanding the role embodied metaphors may play in supporting people to understand the possibilities for physical interaction in augmented spaces.
Unlike the examples from Pollock and Buridan, however, we cannot understand such possibility without possible truth in terms of expressing a possibly true proposition while not being possibly true itself.
Propositions do not express propositions, of course, and so we cannot understand their possibility without possible truth in this way (Plantinga 1981).
It's a rare opportunity to taste and understand the possibilities of such benign goodness.
And the father wanted his son to understand the possibilities and the problems that could arise.
But I feel I've only just begun to understand the possibilities of drama.
In Mr. Fecteau's work everything invites you to look closer and to better understand the possibilities of material expression.
To compound things, many CEOs are from a finance background and don't fully understand the possibilities of technology.
