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05-09-2013 , 03:22 PM
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05-09-2013 , 06:11 PM
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05-09-2013 , 08:25 PM
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In common usage it is an unprecise terms with many meanings related to knowledge, information and/or understanding.

In my field, insight is used denote sudden understanding, an "eureka" moment so to speak.
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05-09-2013 , 08:37 PM
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In common usage it is an unprecise terms with many meanings related to knowledge, information and/or understanding.
Right, I guess thats why I ask.

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In my field, insight is used denote sudden understanding, an "eureka" moment so to speak.
Where does that come from, what is its nature? I'm curious on view points from different perspectives.
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05-09-2013 , 10:19 PM
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Can you explain where you're going with this and how it's relevant to the RGT community?
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05-09-2013 , 10:47 PM
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Can you explain where you're going with this and how it's relevant to the RGT community?
Hopefully you would contribute and answer. Someone in another thread mentioned 'insightful' and I am curious as to what it means. I think it's different depending on different people's view, so I think I can only see it in a bigger view like that.

I think its relevant because I am interested in people's opinions from different religions/non religions.

I don't know where I am going.

That's ok?
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05-10-2013 , 05:42 AM
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Hopefully you would contribute and answer. Someone in another thread mentioned 'insightful' and I am curious as to what it means. I think it's different depending on different people's view, so I think I can only see it in a bigger view like that.

I think its relevant because I am interested in people's opinions from different religions/non religions.

I don't know where I am going.

That's ok?
Can't you just look it up in a dictionary?
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05-10-2013 , 06:28 AM
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Where does that come from, what is its nature? I'm curious on view points from different perspectives.
It comes from the view that not understanding and understanding are dichotomic, thus there must be a treshold at which understanding starts. One gains insight. This was a popular view in psychology around the 1900s. In retrospect this is likely a much too simplistic view of things, but it is helpful in modelling and constructing methods for learning/teaching - thus the term insight has stuck.

In reality my guess is that (human) not understanding isn't that much different from (human) understanding; Someone who does not understand a crossword puzzle, is probably much more similar to a person who does, than to a rock.
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05-10-2013 , 01:37 PM
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Can't you just look it up in a dictionary?
I'd rather understand the meaning than the definition, especially in context to people's beliefs.

Do you have an understanding of the word that you could have typed instead of pointing to a dictionary?
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05-10-2013 , 01:40 PM
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It comes from the view that not understanding and understanding are dichotomic, thus there must be a treshold at which understanding starts. One gains insight. This was a popular view in psychology around the 1900s. In retrospect this is likely a much too simplistic view of things, but it is helpful in modelling and constructing methods for learning/teaching - thus the term insight has stuck.
Thx. I would like to ask where the insight comes from, not the word but the thing it describes. Or maybe the question is where that thresh hold starts.
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In reality my guess is that (human) not understanding isn't that much different from (human) understanding; Someone who does not understand a crossword puzzle, is probably much more similar to a person who does, than to a rock.
Is this part the reason we use the word?
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05-10-2013 , 03:10 PM
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I think it often has to do with seeing how something relates to something you have experience with. It's that link. For example, you're trying to explain what xyz means to a 3rd grader and she keeps saying, "I don't get it". So you tell her, "it's like when you get on the school bus in the morning and you see the only two seats available are next to people you'd rather not sit next to." She says, "Oh, I get it now. xyz is like a dilemma."


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05-10-2013 , 03:29 PM
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I think it often has to do with seeing how something relates to something you have experience with. It's that link. For example, you're trying to explain what xyz means to a 3rd grader and she keeps saying, "I don't get it". So you tell her, "it's like when you get on the school bus in the morning and you see the only two seats available are next to people you'd rather not sit next to." She says, "Oh, I get it now. xyz is like a dilemma."


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It's brought about externally then I suppose?
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