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Re: What is understanding?

At 12:11 7/12/99 -0400, Cary Busby wrote:
... Feynman (advice to himself on his last blackboard) was
"What I cannot create, I do not understand." (Phys Today 10 years ago)

Does it follow that one understands whatever he/she can create?
Cary

I think Feynman out of habit provided a testable statement.
Lack of "creation" is evidence for lack of "understanding."
No further assertion is made (a familiar plight in science).

Tim