Taking my departure from the discussion of the concept of understanding in contemporary epistemology, I will suggest that we need to fine-tune the concept of explanatory understanding in order to comprehensively describe the epistemic endeavors of the natural and social sciences. I will distinguish among the theoretical, narrative, and empathic modes of understanding. None of the sciences are exclusively characterized by one of these modes of understanding. Nevertheless, I will suggest that only the human sciences are characterized by a complex interplay of all three modes. Finally, I will argue that we can account for the explanatory autonomy of rational action explanations in light of this complex interplay.

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理解的普遍性：社会科学和自然科学中的理解维度

脱离对当代认识论中理解概念的讨论，我建议我们需要微调解释性理解的概念，以便全面描述自然科学和社会科学的认识论努力。我将在理论，叙述和共情的理解方式之间进行区分。没有一种科学具有这些理解方式之一的独有特征。不过，我将建议，只有人类科学具有这三种模式的复杂相互作用。最后，我将指出，鉴于这种复杂的相互作用，我们可以解释理性行为解释的解释自主性。