# LLMs and Philosophical Understanding Overview **Opening (not a real abstract):** LLMs and the Enhancement of Philosophical Understanding Philosophical Understanding as Dependency Mapping Philosophical understanding can be viewed as the ability to represent and grasp the dependency relations among various ideas, propositions, or pieces of information. In epistemology, some theorists argue that understanding (especially “objectual” understanding of a subject matter) is essentially knowledge of how things depend on one another (Understanding in Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) at to understand a philosophical issue is not just to know isolated facts or claims, but to see the network of relationships: which assumptions lead to which conclusions, which facts explain others, and how different concepts interrelate. Hannon and Nguyen (2022) build on this notion in