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work_h7nt3mnmyvgehiycu2mcss75fe	J. D. Trout	Scientific Explanation And The Sense Of Understanding*	2002	22	.pdf	application/pdf	10254	716	52	Undeniably, there is a special kind of intellectual satisfaction—an affective component—that occasions the acceptance of an explanation, a sense that we have achieved understanding of the phenomena. Peirce identifies the distinctive cognitive experience of explanatory understanding by isolating the moment of final acceptance; the good explanation "is turned back and forth like a key in a lock" (1908, 100). This subjective sense of understanding may be conveyed by a psychological impression that the explanatory mechanisms are transparent and coherent, or that the explanation seems plausible, and so should be confidently accepted. account of explanation, nor agreement about the important informal criteria for good explanation, producing what one review casts as "an embarrassment for the philosophy of science" (Newton-Smith, 2000, 132). the requirements of explanatory understanding, and located the intellectual value of scientific explanations in their power to achieve a number of explanatory understanding, many philosophers of science, such as scientific realists, hold that explanation plays a robust, epistemic role in theory	./cache/work_h7nt3mnmyvgehiycu2mcss75fe.pdf	./txt/work_h7nt3mnmyvgehiycu2mcss75fe.txt