id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt nk322b91248 Stephen Robert Grimm Understanding as an Epistemic Goal 2006 .txt text/plain 291 9 53 In this respect, I argue that a situation stands in need of explanation for us, and therefore inspires our why-questions, in virtue of our sense that there are various ways that we think the situation might have been. To say only this much still leaves a great deal underdetermined, however, for we might 'identify' what the difference depends on in a number of different ways: for example, by having a true belief about what the difference depends on, by knowing this on the basis of testimony, and so on. cache/nk322b91248.txt txt/nk322b91248.txt