http://blog.oup.com/2008/02/understand/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2008/02/understand/#comment-139426 Paul Peterson Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:48:37 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2008/02/understand/#comment-139426 I'm sorry Elizabeth, but that doesn't make any sense. Read the blog again. I’m sorry Elizabeth, but that doesn’t make any sense. Read the blog again.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/02/understand/#comment-139030 elizabeth chapman Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:55:44 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2008/02/understand/#comment-139030 I feel you have missed the physical basis of this word by dismissing the logical implication of 'stand under.' To bear the weight of a thing allows one to grasp (through emapathy) its potential impact on another, the consequences (through motor planning and judgement) for placement in another situation, and its significance (as a result of memory) in any other physcially experienced settings. I find the etymological analysis lacking as it feels to be only tangentially related. I feel you have missed the physical basis of this word by dismissing the logical implication of ‘stand under.’ To bear the weight of a thing allows one to grasp (through emapathy) its potential impact on another, the consequences (through motor planning and judgement) for placement in another situation, and its significance (as a result of memory) in any other physcially experienced settings. I find the etymological analysis lacking as it feels to be only tangentially related.

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