"Our understanding of these distant bodies will depend to a good degree upon how well we understand our own plain Earth," he said.
The basic understanding of relevance does not depend on whether we speak of "things" or "information".
Mature understandings of history, myth and art therefore depend heavily on being conversant with the cultures from which they originate.
In this case, two different understandings of the artists' intentions and the content depend on which title is chosen to go with it.
When one seeks to explain an event, the understanding often depends on the frame referred to.
This meant that for something like a quarter of a century, a deeper understanding of nuclear physics depended on cosmic ray observations.
The problem is that understanding is a personal process and depends on so many different factors.
I remember him struggling with a story where understanding of the narrative depended on the reader knowing about canals.
Our understanding of hemodynamics depends on measuring the blood flow at different points in the circulation.