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UNDERSTANDING AND ATTENDING TO WHAT MATTERS (pages 271-294)

Alice WHEATLEY ABSTRACT: We do not just want to know the truth. We also want to make sense of things, such that we understand. In this paper, I argue that understanding is distinctively valuable because it involves attending to what matters; more specifically, we cannot improve understanding by obscuring what matters. Section 1 introduces some cases that suggest understanding involves …

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