 Into this mix some have argued that the really valuable things from an epistemic point of view are “higher grade” cognitive accomplishments, such as understanding or wisdom (Riggs 2003; cf. Baehr 2014). Thus by nature we do not seem to have any desire to acquire trivial pieces of information, such as the name of the 589th person in the 1971 Dallas phone book. But any instance of understanding might seem worth pursuing or in some way worthwhile; thus Riggs writes,