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Understanding vs Scienticide - What's the difference?

understanding | scienticide |

As nouns the difference between understanding and scienticide

is that understanding is mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature while scienticide is destruction or debasement of scientific method, understanding, and/or infrastructure; a (figurative) killing of science.

As an adjective understanding

is showing compassion.

As a verb understanding

is present participle of lang=en.

understanding

English

(wikipedia understanding)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.
  • (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
  • (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
  • (countable) An informal contract, mutual agreement.
  • (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
  • (uncountable) Sympathy.
  • All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.

    • See also

    * intellection

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing compassion.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}

    scienticide

    English

    Noun

  • (rare) Destruction or debasement of scientific method, understanding, and/or infrastructure; a (figurative) killing of science.
  • * 1997 : Dževad Juzbaši? [ed.], Prilozi Historiji Sarajeva , page 523 (Institut za Istoriju, Orijentalni Institut)
    • In the AVNOJ-Yugoslav period, a significant network of educational-scientific and scientific-research institutions was developed. In the period of the Chetnik, tiral-fascist aggression, Sarajevo has experienced an actual scienticide .
  • * 2000 : Alexander E. Sedov, New Russian myths around genetic research in mass-media and in common mind , §3: “Negation and ignorance of heredity in fSU and in modern Russia”, page 5
    • Their myths neglected the heredity, while their “research” activities were full of primitive mistakes and falsifications, and followed by the massive administrative terror that was supported by the government. It led to the broad “scienticide ” in fSU.

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