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Is understanding explanatory or objectual?

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Jonathan Kvanvig has argued that “objectual” understanding, i.e. the understanding we have of a large body of information, cannot be reduced to explanatory concepts. In this paper, I show that Kvanvig fails to establish this point, and then propose a framework for reducing objectual understanding to explanatory understanding.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Middlebury College, 310 Twilight Hall, Middlebury, VT, 05753, USA

    Kareem Khalifa

  2. Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 817 Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Kareem Khalifa

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Khalifa, K. Is understanding explanatory or objectual?. Synthese 190, 1153–1171 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-9886-8

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