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The point I’m trying to make (poorly) is that i don’t think a one size fits all definition of “understanding” is useful. It’s more useful to define understanding with respect to how you can justify a thing you know.

So for the case of cats, I will understand cats at a different level from a cat biologist. I can point to features that seem catlike, and they can talk about all sorts of other scientific things that make a cat a cat.

With respect to that sciency kind of understanding, I don’t understand cats. With respect to a much looser ‘point at the features’ kind of understanding, I do understand cats.