What does it mean to "understand?"

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Table of Contents

Introduction.

1: Society and Science & Technology

1-1: Concerns about cloning technology

1-2: Understanding science and technology is difficult

1-3: Role of Science and Technology Journalism

2: What is a scientific explanation?

2-1: Two types of descriptions

2-2: Scientific Explanatory Framework

2-3: Proof of the Theorem

2-4: Inductive Reasoning

2-5: Origin of Inference Rules

2-6: Asking Why

2-7: Resolution by division

3: Incompleteness of inference

3-1: Roots of Scientific Explanation

3-2: False Reasoning

3-3: Conditions for applying inference rules

3-4: Autoregressive issues

3-5: Explanation by analogy

3-6: Explanation Steps

3-7: Increased reliability through different explanations

3-8: The Problem of Reasoning Fields

3-9: How to answer

4: Understanding Language

4-1: Word Meanings and Directives

4-2: Meaning of Words

4-3: Science and Objectivity

4-4: Ambiguity in Sentences

4-5: Difficulty in understanding the translated text

4-6: Interpretation by context and knowledge

5: Writing can be dangerous

5-1: Metaphorical explanations are easy to understand. But ......

5-2: The Truth of Quotations

5-3: Note the expression of possibility

5-4: Importance of Dialogue

5-5: "I get it!" That's what I mean.

6: For science and technology to gain society's trust

6-1: The Problem of Gigantic Science and Technology

6-2: From Analysis to Synthesis

6-3: Accountability to Society

6-4: Ethics of Scientists and Engineers

6-5: Social and Natural Sciences

6-6: Focus on human emotions

6-7: Trust in Learning

6-8: Beyond the Natural Sciences

6-9: The difficulty of scientific prediction

Conclusion

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