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'fragments/reports', 'A Discourse on Method' and 'No Understanding without Explanation'
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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
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Scientific understanding is always the grasping of a correct explanation [Strevens]
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We may 'understand that' the cat is on the mat, but not at all 'understand why' it is there [Strevens]
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Understanding is a precondition, comes in degrees, is active, and holistic - unlike explanation [Strevens]
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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs
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We can believe a thing without knowing we believe it [Descartes]
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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty
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In morals Descartes accepts the conventional, but rejects it in epistemology [Roochnik on Descartes]
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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito
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In thinking everything else false, my own existence remains totally certain [Descartes]
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