Understanding a communicated thought
Synthese 198 (12):12137-12151 (2020)
Abstract
The goal of this paper is twofold. First, we argue that the understanding one has of a proposition or a propositional content of a representational vehicle is a species of what contemporary epistemologists characterise as objectual understanding. Second, we demonstrate that even though this type of understanding differs from linguistic understanding, in many instances of successful communication, these two types of understanding jointly contribute to understanding a communicated thought.Author Profiles
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10.1007/s11229-020-02854-2
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Helping Others to Understand: A Normative Account of the Speech Act of Explanation.Grzegorz Gaszczyk - forthcoming - Topoi:1-12.
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The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding.Jonathan L. Kvanvig - 2003 - Cambridge University Press.