Empathy

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A kind of understanding of human actions and feelings that is often expressed as 'seeing from the inside' by contrast with what is sometimes said to be the standard scientific approach of subsuming under some generalization or law about human behavior. This notion was first given a role in methodology by Dilthey who used the German term 'Verstehen' for it. Recently, an effort is being made to expand the concept of scientific understanding to include empathic understanding. The term is somewhat different from 'sympathy,' which has a stronger affective component, an element of shared feeling, by contrast with shared understanding. As the (originally French) saying goes: "To understand all is not to forgive all."