Are Known Without Being Taught

Clarify

Collect Around Failure

Expand

Gather Around Failure

Increase Resolution

Never Quite Land

Only Get Said Out Loud

Only Mean Something To One Person

Reduce Asymmetry

Refuse To Land

Reward Expansion

explanation

explaining

understanding

arguing

problem-solving

research

There's a word for that

confusion

stupidity

paying attention

is a model of intelligibility borrowed from the natural sciences and applied to the historical disciplines by positivist schools. 'Interpretation' on the other hand, is a derivative form of understanding.

Because of this distinction between the natural sciencesand the human sciences, Dilthey declared that the researchmethods must be different. 'Nature we can explain, buthumans we must understand' (Smith, 2002, p. 187). ForDilthey, 'explanation' referred to the model of intelligibilityborrowed from the natural sciences and applied to thehistorical disciplines by positivist schools. 'Interpretation'on the other hand, was a derivative form of understanding,which Dilthey regarded as the fundamental attitude of thehuman sciences and which alone can preserve thefundamental difference between these sciences and the

is like so much water poured into the wine.

A writer should give direct certainty... explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

is often spared with a little inaccuracy.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

is often conflated with justification. Explaining why something happened is not the same as a justification for why it happened.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

is either able to be done simply or one doesn't understand it well enough.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein

is often gratuitous. If one's work speaks for itself, one ought not interrupt.

If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

is not always a profitable exercise. Sometimes the more one explains something, the more the listener doesn't understand it.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. Mark Twain

explanation, n.All

explanation