 For the last several decades, however, a case has been made that “understanding” is a better translation of episteme. (For early influential arguments see, e.g., Moravscik 1979; Burnyeat 1980, 1981; Annas 1981.) To appreciate why, note that knowledge, as now commonly conceived, can apparently be quite easy to get. Thus it seems I can know a proposition such as that it is raining outside just by opening my eyes. It also seems that items of knowledge can be in principle isolated or atomistic. I can therefore apparently know that it is raining while knowing very little about other things, such as why it is raining, or what constitutes rain, or when it will stop.