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As if I was about thinking! Ouch! It is as though am casting blames Our place is great and so nice Everything is good and kind to all of us All we have lost is the mind Just the mind and that alone What else remains? Every bit of us is sore unsafe What a community of shame The men we pay to save are murderers Our sleep is maimed and slaughtered Our peace is sold to dreams Our welfare has become an expensive imagination What remains of life here? Life has lost meaning and values are dead Culture has become a word of confusion Just as truth is buried, words have lost meaning We now talk without communicating Understanding has left human existence Crises and wars have become intense reality They just happen and no reasons are fastened Is there anything more left for knowledge? Men of wisdom are almost all gone The rest are hurriedly getting set to leave What hope is here for us? Has death become the only resort? The happiest day

INTRODUCTION Many considerations on the relationship between knowledge and understanding tend to, first of all, grapple with the question of which has priority, which comes first - knowledge or understanding? Pondering on this, other questions eventuate: at what time can we say we know? When can we say we understand? It seems that we must understand certain things in order to know and for us to understand, we certainly must know something. According to Richard Mason, “It is easy enough to set up a debate over the priority of knowledge and understanding. On the one side, what you know must come first. What you understand can be seen as part of what you know. More radically, you can always ask: What do I need to know in order to understand? On the other side, you have to understand knowledge before considering what you know.” 1 Furthermore, one can contend that to know an argument, for instance, is not the same thing as to understand the argument. To know the argument might simply m