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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19691

Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm]

19690

'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm]

19692

You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions' [Grimm]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

6783	To 'accept' a theory is not to believe it, but to believe it empirically adequate [Fraassen, by Bird]