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> Illusions of understanding can take several (overlapping) forms. Some that are commonly encountered are: (1) Illusions of explanatory depth (we think we personally understand things in more detail than we do). (2) Illusions of explanatory completeness (even if we don’t think we fully understand it ourselves, we think the best experts do). (3) Illusions resulting from understanding something other than the goal (e.g. we believe we understand the formation of memories because we understand the anatomy of the brain site, the hippocampus, that is needed for such learning). (4) Illusions due to simple statements giving a feeling of insight (such as when tautological statements seem insightful because they are framed in a reductionist manner). (5) Illusions (as described earlier) that one understands the cause of phenomena because there exists a model or procedure that predicts well. (6) Illusions of causal strength (attending to an observed relation makes one believe the causal connection is stronger than it is). (7) illusions that one can describe causes simply. (8) Illusions by the explainer that the recipient understands what the communicator intends. (9) Illusions by the recipient of an explanation that the communicator understands well and that the explanation is correct and complete.

Are we to infer that these observations are unsupported by evidence? Are we to assume that the research work is so poorly constructed that they did not do research to find evidence of the existence of the classifications in existing research?