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Full Idea
Understanding is an extremely vague concept.
Gist of Idea
Understanding is an extremely vague concept
Source
Wesley Salmon (Four Decades of Scientific Explanation [1989], 4.3)
Book Ref
Salmon,Wesley C.: 'Four Decades of Scientific Explanation', ed/tr. Humphreys,Paul [Pittsburgh 2006], p.127
A Reaction
True, I suppose, but we usually recognise understanding when we encounter it, and everybody has a pretty clear notion of an 'increase' in understanding. I suspect that the concept is perfectly clear, but we lack any scale for measuring it.