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| Understanding: the ability to give reasons for a distinction or to justify a selection of options. See also actions, meaning, knowledge._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Adam Smith on Understanding - Dictionary of Arguments
Otteson I 15 Understanding/Adam Smith/Otteson: The misjudgment we often face from actual spectators can also go in the other direction, however. Whereas people who do not know us are often disinclined to bother to try to fully understand our situation, our family and friends can often be too partial to us. Because they love or are fond of us, they might be too indulgent when judging our behavior. In such cases their feedback is not what we need, because it does not give us good information about how people outside our close circle of family and friends would judge us. Here too, then, asking ourselves what a fully informed but disinterested and impartial spectator would think of our conduct can help correct the biased and partial information we get from actual spectators. So Smith’s “impartial spectator procedure” becomes the process by which we can more accurately assess our own conduct, and it acts as a heuristic device we can use whenever we are considering doing something and wonder whether we should. >Ideal observer/Adam Smith, >Intersubjectivity, >Objectivity._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
EconSmith I Adam Smith The Theory of Moral Sentiments London 2010 EconSmithV I Vernon L. Smith Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms Cambridge 2009 Otteson I James R. Otteson The Essential Adam Smith Vancouver: Fraser Institute. 2018 |
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