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Publisher: Journals Gateway
Perspectives on Science (2019) 27 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 February 2019
Journal Articles
Publisher: Journals Gateway
Perspectives on Science (2019) 27 (1): 48–67.
Published: 01 February 2019
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In this paper, I outline a heuristic for thinking about the relation between explanation and understanding that can be used to capture various levels of “intimacy” between them. I argue that the level of complexity in the structure of explanation is inversely proportional to the level of intimacy between explanation and understanding, i.e., the more complexity the less intimacy. I further argue that the level of complexity in the structure of explanation also affects the explanatory depth in a similar way to intimacy between explanation and understanding, i.e., the less complexity the greater explanatory depth and vice versa.