Thoughts on How human Understanding the world

How we as human understand the world? I am here giving my own answer. We understand it through interpretation. When we encounter a new object, we tend to find a way to translate it to another object(s) that we have already understood(or at least we think we understand). This style of understanding correspondent to model theory in the sense of logic.

But we can also understand this new object in this way, we observe it's behaviors and get familiar with it's behavior, and we learn its behaviors so well that we may predict it or simulate it in another different context, then in this way, we also can say now we understand this object. This pattern of understanding is what we call proof theory in the sense of logic.

And off course, most of the time, we mix these ways together to understand, then that blur the essence of human understanding a little bit. At last, I also want to ask, are the two styles I mentioned above are the most basic ways to understand a new object? Or There may exist another way that I cannot even describe?