Sentence examples for propositional understanding from inspiring English sources

(Kvanvig 2003: 189) The first kind of understanding he calls "objectual understanding", the second kind "propositional understanding".

Propositional understanding, argues Brogaard, no more requires coherence in one's beliefs than propositional knowledge, and so the difference in value between the two cannot lie here.

More specifically, Brogaard claims that we can distinguish between objectual and propositional knowledge just as we can distinguish between objectual and propositional understanding.

This requirement entails that understanding is directly factive in the case of propositional understanding and indirectly factive in the case of objectual understanding i.e., the agent needs to have at least mostly true beliefs about the target subject matter in order to be truly said to have objectual understanding of that subject matter.

So provided that we are consistent in our comparisons of objectual and propositional understanding on the one hand, and objectual and propositional knowledge on the other, Kvanvig fails to make a sound case for thinking that understanding is of greater value than knowledge.

Consider the proposal that sense experience manifests a kind of intentionality distinct from and more basic than that involved in propositional thought and conceptual understanding.

Neither Bonjour nor Bealer are in fact particularly concerned to defend the analytic by such claims, but their recourse to mere understanding of propositional content is certainly what many defenders of the analytic have had in mind.

If valence is influenced by item believability, then scrambling should eliminate (at least in part) the valence difference between believable and unbelievable items, since removing propositional meaning eliminates the understanding of congruence (or incongruence) with one's beliefs.

They may work for convincing some people; however some with an understanding of propositional calculus or epistemology can investigate these claims to their personal satisfaction.

On this view, propositions and propositional functions have an order.

Wherever the evidential support relations are more complex, mere understanding of the propositional content of the justifiers will not suffice to issue in justification for a resulting belief.