علم و ادراك و نحوه تشكيل آن

Knowledge and Understanding, and the Way They are Shaped

This article is an attempt at explaining the phases of understanding, and it takes the following points as for granted: a) entities of the world are real and objective entities; b) every individual unit has its unique particularity; c) what we understand corresponds to what is there in the objective world. The author, in this article, suggests five stages for understanding the reality, two of which are non-cognitive stages and precede any mental activity to employ words and adjectives for explaining general characteristics of realities. He argues that the first thing understood is mere existence of a phenomenon, and the identity of what is perceived through knowledge by presence with the objective reality. Such a presence before soul (nofs) resembles oneʹs understanding of reality before being able to use any language except body language. Further steps include classification, language and logic which facilitate retrieval.