Hubert, Mario and Malfatti, Federica (2022) Towards Ideal Understanding. [Preprint]
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What does it take to understand a phenomenon ideally, or to the highest conceivable extent? In this paper, we answer this question by arguing for five necessary conditions for ideal understanding: (i) representational accuracy, (ii) intelligibility, (iii) truth, (iv) reasonable endorsement, and (v) fitting. Even if one disagrees that there is some form of ideal understanding, these five conditions can be regarded as sufficient conditions for a particularly deep level of understanding. We then argue that grasping, novel predictions, and transparency are not reasonable conditions for ideal understanding.
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Keywords: | understanding, knowledge, scientific theory | |||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Mario Hubert | |||||||||
Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2022 13:50 | |||||||||
Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2022 13:50 | |||||||||
Item ID: | 21262 | |||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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Date: | 2022 | |||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21262 |
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