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Single Idea 4190

[from 'Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root'' by Arthur Schopenhauer, in 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding ]

Full Idea

All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation.

Gist of Idea

All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation

Source

Arthur Schopenhauer (Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root' [1813], Ch.IV)

Book Reference

Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'The World as Will and Idea', ed/tr. Berman,Jill and David [Everyman 1995], p.271


A Reaction

Based, I take it, on Hume. Presumably he means a posteriori understanding, as it hardly fits an understanding of arithmetic. Understanding needs more than just causation. What aspects of causation?