Full Idea
There may be a 'weak' sense of understanding, where all you need to do is to be able to answer 'why questions' successfully, where one might have come by this ability in a lucky way.
Gist of Idea
You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions'
Source
Stephen R. Grimm (Understanding [2011], 3)
Book Reference
'Routledge Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Bernecker,S/Pritchard,D [Routledge 2014], p.92
A Reaction
We can see this point (in Idea 19691), but the idea that one could come by true complex understanding of something by purely lucky means is a bit absurd. Surely you would get one or two why questions wrong? 100%, just by luck?
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