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Understanding without Explanation: The Ability-based View of Understanding
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설명 없는 이해는 가능한가? - 이해에 대한 능력 기반 접근

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Author
Byeongho Lee (서울대학교) Cheon Hyundeuk (서울대학교)
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한국과학철학회 과학철학 과학철학 제25권 제1호 KCI Accredited Journals
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2022.3
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59 - 87 (29page)

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It is a prevailing idea that an agent needs to grasp a correct explanation of a phenomenon to achieve understanding why it occurs. This paper investigates whether the idea ― what we call “the thesis of the necessity of explanation” ― holds. We provide a couple of counterexamples of it, thereby arguing that it is possible to acquire understanding without explanation. For the purpose of this paper, we reexamine some of Lipton(2009)’s examples. However, we discuss the examples from an ability view of understanding based on counterfactual reasoning rather than the knowledge view of understanding adopted by Lipton. We demonstrate that some cases of potential explanations are genuine examples of understanding without explanation although the example of manipulating a visual model to acquire causal information is not. Thus explanation is not essential for understanding.

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