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dingnuts 4 days ago

I've thought about this a lot in the context of "why do I need to learn facts when I can just look them up?"

Understanding a concept means you are able to use it in higher order reasoning. Think about the rote practice necessary to build intuition in mathematics until you're able to use the concept being learned for the next concept which in turn relies on it.

Once that intuition is built, that's understanding.