The paper argues that an account of understanding should take the form of a Carnapian explication and acknowledge that understanding comes in degrees. An explication of objectual understanding is defended, which helps to make sense of the cognitive achievements and goals of science. The explication combines a necessary condition with three evaluative dimensions: an epistemic agent understands a subject matter by means of a theory only if the agent commits herself sufficiently to the theory of the subject matter, and to the degree that the agent grasps the theory (i.e., is able to make use of it), the theory answers to the facts and the agent’s commitment to the theory is justified. The threshold for outright attributions of understanding is determined contextually. The explication has descriptive as well as normative facets and allows for the possibility of understanding by means of non-explanatory (e.g., purely classificatory) theories.

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解释客观理解：认真对待学位

该论文认为，对理解的解释应该采用卡尔纳皮安解释的形式，并承认理解是有度数的。客观理解的解释得到了辩护，这有助于理解科学的认知成就和目标。解释结合了一个必要条件和三个评价维度：只有当主体充分致力于主题理论，并且主体掌握理论的程度（即，认知主体）才能通过理论理解主体。 ，能够利用它），理论对事实的回答，并且代理人对理论的承诺是合理的。完全归因于理解的阈值是根据上下文确定的。