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Full Idea
It may be that understanding is compatible with luck, in a way that knowledge is not.
Gist of Idea
Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck
Source
Stephen R. Grimm (Understanding [2011], 3)
Book Ref
'Routledge Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Bernecker,S/Pritchard,D [Routledge 2014], p.91
A Reaction
[He cites Kvanvig and Prichard] If so, then we cannot say that knowledge is a lesser type of understanding. If you ask a trusted person how a mechanism works, and they have a wild guess that is luckily right, you would then understand it.
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19690 | 'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm] |
19691 | Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm] |
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