# 5 kinds of understanding and metaphors: Missing pieces in pedagogical taxonomies

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The piece distinguishes associative, lexical, inferential, instrumental, and creative understanding as overlapping levels that require progressively richer mental representations.

Blog post · Metaphor Hacker · 14 June 2019

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 14 June 2019
- Published in: Metaphor Hacker
- Language: English

Topics: understanding, education, cognition, metaphor.

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