16126 | Expertise is knowledge of the whole by means of the parts [Plato] |
22513 | Knowing is having knowledge; understanding is using knowledge [Aristotle] |
22587 | Understanding is the aim of our nature [Aristotle] |
12364 | We understand a thing when we know its explanation and its necessity [Aristotle] |
12366 | We only understand something when we know its explanation [Aristotle] |
12370 | Some understanding, of immediate items, is indemonstrable [Aristotle] |
23308 | Reasoning relates to understanding as time does to eternity [Boethius, by Sorabji] |
22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
17211 | Understanding is the sole aim of reason, and the only profit for the mind [Spinoza] |
12960 | We understand things when they are distinct, and we can derive necessities from them [Leibniz] |
12998 | Understanding grasps the agreements and disagreements of ideas [Leibniz] |
19332 | For Leibniz, divine understanding grasps every conceivable possibility [Leibniz, by Perkins] |
15627 | Kant showed that the understanding (unlike reason) concerns what is finite and conditioned [Kant, by Hegel] |
16898 | Understanding essentially involves singular elements [Kant, by Burge] |
5573 | Reason is distinct from understanding, and is the faculty of rules or principles [Kant] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
19089 | Our whole conception of an object is its possible practical consequences [Peirce] |
17623 | To understand a thought you must understand its logical structure [Frege, by Burge] |
16885 | To understand a thought, understand its inferential connections to other thoughts [Frege, by Burge] |
15578 | Propositions don't provide understanding, because the understanding must come first [Heidegger, by Polt] |
18712 | Understanding is translation, into action or into other symbols [Wittgenstein] |
13047 | It is knowing 'why' that gives scientific understanding, not knowing 'that' [Salmon] |
13065 | Understanding is an extremely vague concept [Salmon] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
16814 | Understanding is not mysterious - it is just more knowledge, of causes [Lipton] |
9325 | In contrast with knowledge, the notion of understanding emphasizes practical engagement [Gulick] |
20188 | Modern epistemology is too atomistic, and neglects understanding [Zagzebski] |
20223 | Epistemology is excessively atomic, by focusing on justification instead of understanding [Zagzebski] |
18810 | Aristotle's proofs give understanding, so it can't be otherwise, so consequence is necessary [Smiley, by Rumfitt] |
16562 | We understand something by presenting its low-level entities and activities [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
15707 | There is intentional, mechanical, teleological, essentialist, vitalist and deontological understanding [Gelman] |
19542 | It is nonsense that understanding does not involve knowledge; to understand, you must know [Dougherty/Rysiew] |
19543 | To grasp understanding, we should be more explicit about what needs to be known [Dougherty/Rysiew] |
19261 | Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig] |
14365 | Scientific understanding is always the grasping of a correct explanation [Strevens] |
14368 | We may 'understand that' the cat is on the mat, but not at all 'understand why' it is there [Strevens] |
14369 | Understanding is a precondition, comes in degrees, is active, and holistic - unlike explanation [Strevens] |
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] |
19691 | Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm] |
18831 | Medieval logicians said understanding A also involved understanding not-A [Rumfitt] |
19265 | Can you possess objective understanding without realising it? [Vaidya] |