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Becker, Christopher.

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A Critical Examination of Understanding's Characteristics: Why, in a Sense, Understanding Is Unique.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Critical Examination of Understanding's Characteristics: Why, in a Sense, Understanding Is Unique./
Author:	Becker, Christopher.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	47 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International57-06(E).
Subject:	Epistemology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10813326
ISBN:	9780438067875

A Critical Examination of Understanding's Characteristics: Why, in a Sense, Understanding Is Unique.
Becker, Christopher.

A Critical Examination of Understanding's Characteristics: Why, in a Sense, Understanding Is Unique. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 47 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Mississippi, 2018.

Is understanding a unique kind of epistemic state or simply another word for knowledge? Recently, there is a dispute in the literature between those, non-reductionists, who argue that we cannot reduce understanding to knowledge. Sliwa and Khalifa, two reductionists, on the other hand, argue that understanding is basically just another word for knowledge (if we are fairly comparing the two). After considering the dialectic between non-reductionists and reductionists, undogmatically, I argue that Sliwa's arguments in favor of reductionism fail. Sliwa's analytical argument in defense of reductionism is unsuccessful because a special kind of understanding, subjective understanding , can be independent of knowledge. And, Sliwa's background argument in defense of reductionism fails because there can be epistemic asymmetries in skeptical scenarios. So, my thesis is that understanding is not necessarily reducible to knowledge. After all, a certain kind of understanding, subjective understanding, is both non-factive and compatible with certain kinds of epistemic luck, unlike knowledge. Understanding, in a sense, is unique.

ISBN: 9780438067875Subjects--Topical Terms:

896969
Epistemology.

A Critical Examination of Understanding's Characteristics: Why, in a Sense, Understanding Is Unique.
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