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16288 | Analysis reduces primitives and makes understanding explicit (without adding new knowledge) [Lewis] |
Full Idea: The object of analysis is to reduce our burden of primitive notions, and to make tacit understanding explicit - not to bootstrap ourselves into understanding what we didn't understand at all beforehand. | |
From: David Lewis (On the Plurality of Worlds [1986], 3.2) | |
A reaction: I am particularly keen on the idea of 'making tacit understanding explicit'. I connect this with faith in intuition, and with the coherence view of justification. |