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Understanding, explanation, and unification

机译：理解，解释和统一

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In this article I argue that there are two different types of understanding: the understanding we get from explanations, and the understanding we get from unification. This claim is defended by first showing that explanation and unification are not as closely related as has sometimes been thought. A critical appraisal of recent proposals for understanding without explanation leads us to discuss the example of a purely classificatory biology: it turns out that such a science can give us understanding of the world through unification of the phenomena, even though it does not give us any explanations. The two types of understanding identified in this paper, while strictly separate, do have in common that both consist in seeing how the individual phenomena of the universe hang together. Explanations give us connections between the phenomena through the asymmetric, 'vertical' relation of determination; unifications give us connections through the symmetric, 'horizontal' relation of kinship. We then arrive at a general definition of understanding as knowledge of connections between the phenomena, and indicate that there might be more than two types of understanding.
机译：在本文中，我认为有两种不同类型的理解：我们从解释中获得的理解和我们从统一中获得的理解。通过首先表明解释和统一与有时想到的关系并不紧密，可以为这一主张辩护。对最近提出的无解释理解建议的严格评估使我们讨论了纯粹分类生物学的例子：事实证明，这样的一门科学可以通过现象的统一使我们对世界有所了解，即使它并没有给我们带来任何好处。解释。本文中确定的两种理解虽然严格分开，但确实有一个共同点，即两者都在于了解宇宙中各个现象如何相互联系。解释通过非对称的“垂直”确定关系使现象之间具有联系。统一通过对称的“水平”亲属关系为我们提供了联系。然后，我们将理解的一般定义定义为现象之间联系的知识，并指出可能存在不止两种类型的理解。

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