Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Truth-maker Realism: response to Gregory' and 'No Understanding without Explanation'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Maybe truth-making is an unanalysable primitive, but we can specify principles for it [Smith,B]

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

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Scientific understanding is always the grasping of a correct explanation [Strevens]

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We may 'understand that' the cat is on the mat, but not at all 'understand why' it is there [Strevens]

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Understanding is a precondition, comes in degrees, is active, and holistic - unlike explanation [Strevens]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus]