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20 Mar discern

To separate one thing from another in the mind or to recognize clearly. The Japanese word “wakaru” is usually interpreted as “to understand” but its roots really mean to discern. The first meaning of discern is much like the meaning of discriminate.
Keywords: discriminate
mind
recognition
interpretation
knowledge
understanding
reasoning
References: associationism
cognition
inference
knowledge
taxonomy

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