I examine situations in which we say that different subjects have ‘different’,
‘competing’, or ‘conflicting understandings’ of a phenomenon. In order to make
sense of such situations, we should turn our attention to an often neglected
ambiguity in the word ‘understanding’. Whereas the notion of understanding that
is typically discussed in philosophy is, to use Elgin’s terms, tethered to the
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