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On understanding understanding
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1997Abstract It is argued, by use of specific examples, that mathematical understanding is something which cannot be modelled in terms of entirely computational procedures. Our conception of a natural number (a non‐negative integer: 0, 1, 2, 3,…) is something which goes beyond any formulation in terms of computational rules.
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On Understanding Understanding
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2014Psychoanalytic understanding in its status as a hermeneutic activity is different from other forms of understanding. It is distinct, for instance, from psychodynamic psychotherapy, which may be able to establish itself as an empirical science. Empirical science deals with rules and establishes facts, while hermeneutic science deals with meanings ...
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Understand the cogs to understand cognition
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017AbstractLake et al. suggest that current AI systems lack the inductive biases that enable human learning. However, Lake et al.'s proposed biases may not directly map onto mechanisms in the developing brain. A convergence of fields may soon create a correspondence between biological neural circuits and optimization in structured architectures, allowing ...
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Understanding Scientific Understanding
2017This book is about scientific understanding. It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is highly important in our present-day society. But what does it mean to achieve this understanding? What precisely is scientific understanding?
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Understanding ‘sensorimotor understanding’ [PDF]
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2009 Sensorimotor theories understand perception to be a process of active, exploratory engagement with the environment, mediated by the possession and exercise of a certain body of knowledge concerning sensorimotor dependencies. This paper aims to characterise that exercise, and to show that it places constraints upon the content of sensorimotor knowledge ...
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Understanding program understanding
Proceedings IWPC 2000. 8th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, 2000It is well known that many software activities involve Program Understanding tasks. In fact, anyone working in Software Engineering is confronted with the task of understanding programs, at one level or another, in one form or another, and normally s/he succeeds rather well. However, we don't have any clear understanding of what ?to understand programs?
H. Wertz, J. Singer, F. Balmas
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UNDERSTANDING THE PLACE OF “UNDERSTANDING”∗
Religious Education, 1981∗This essay is a response to Charles Melchert's essay “ ‘Understanding’ as a Purpose of Religious Education”.
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Understanding understanding poetry
Computers and the Humanities, 1977This paper resulted from a Modern Language Association panel on the study of literature with computers. The letter which invited me to join that panel suggested that I explain either (1) what the English question-answering system on which I am working at IBM would "do to" Donne's Valediction or (2) what an ideal, future version of our system might do ...
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