Is understanding explanatory or objectual?
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Is understanding explanatory or objectual?
Is Understanding Explanatory or Objectual? [Forthcoming in Synthese. Please cite final draft.] Kareem Khalifa Department of Philosophy Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 05753 Abstract: Jonathan Kvanvig has argued that "objectual" understanding, i.e. the understanding we have of a large body of information, cannot be reduced to explanatory concepts. In this paper, I show that Kvanvig fails to es...
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عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-9886-8