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The thinking process which is our starting point, is fraught with dangers. If we say that a student has to understand the terms used for him to grasp the topic, we end up with a “Mission: Impossible”. Understanding? Well, yes, but up to what point? The precise level of comprehension aimed for would have to be defined each time, or at least a level giving a (minimum?) intelligibility for a given reasoning process.
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Viennot, L. (2014). Essential tools for comprehension. In: Thinking in Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8666-9_1
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