III. The notion of understanding: Replies to Cunningham and van Evra

It is pointed out against the two critics (a) that an identity or partial identity of meanings and facts is logically impossible, (b) that the logical grammar of ‘identify’ and ‘explain’ is different from that of ‘understand’ and that hence understanding can never be an operation of identifying or explaining, and (c) that rational understanding does not involve a ‘reproduction’ of the subject matter in any controversial sense.