 Against this, some have objected that there are many cases of “easy understanding” where no significant obstacle seems to be involved, and no significant cognitive ability at play (e.g., Lawler 2019). For instance, it seems I could come to understand why my tumble-dryer isn’t working—because it is unplugged—quite easily and without bringing to bear any particularly significant cognitive ability (Carter &amp; Gordon 2014: 5). It has therefore been claimed that not just any item of understanding is valuable, and particularly not just any item of “understanding why”. Rather, only so-called objectual understanding is distinctively valuable, where objectual understanding is said to concern “wide” subject matters that involve “a large network of propositions and relations between those propositions” (Carter &amp; Gordon 2014: 8; cf. Khalifa 2017b: ch. 8).