 Understanding seems to be different than knowledge in both respects. For one thing, understanding typically seems harder to acquire, and more of an epistemic accomplishment, than knowledge (Pritchard 2010). For another, the objects of understanding seem more structured and interconnected (Zagzebski 2019). Thus the subject matters we try to understand are often highly complex (quantum mechanics, the U.S. Civil War), and even when we try to understand isolated events (such as the spilling of my coffee cup), we typically do so by drawing connections with other events (such as the jostling of the table by my knee).