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  • 1 - An Introduction to the Puzzles of Understanding

  • David R. Olson, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Making Sense
    Published online:
    21 April 2022
    Print publication:
    05 May 2022, pp 1-8

  • Summary

    When our daughter Joan was little more than a year old, on a whim I said to her, “Joanie, go get your shoes.” To that point, she had never said a word or given any indication of understanding language, so my request was clearly unrealistic. Yet she looked at me briefly, wheeled around, and disappeared down the hallway. Moments later, she returned, shoes in hand and a smile on her face that expressed a pride matched only by that felt by her astonished father. She understood!

  • 11 - Understanding and Sense-Making

  • David R. Olson, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Making Sense
    Published online:
    21 April 2022
    Print publication:
    05 May 2022, pp 123-130

  • Summary

    Making sense is the subjective experience that allows the child or other animal the confidence to go on, to expect that the world is unfolding much as it has in the past. Such subjective states are manifest to us as observers as interest, curiosity, and a willingness to go on, to learn and even to repeat an activity and enjoy the satisfactions of achieving one’s goals. We adults know such feelings and we attribute them to the children.