What Is Scientific Misunderstanding?

Journal of Human Cognition 7 (2):5-18 (2023)
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Abstract

We present the negative phenomena of understanding in relation to scientific explanations. We begin by formulating the distinction between genuine understanding and lack of understanding, to define the epistemic category of misunderstanding. We illustrate misunderstanding with a short meta-philosophical study on the current debates about distinctively mathematical explanations.

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Stefan Sashev Petkov
Beijing Normal University
Haomiao Yu
University of Guelph

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