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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

4190	All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer]
	Full Idea: All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation.
	From: Arthur Schopenhauer (Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root' [1813], Ch.IV)
	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?