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Full Idea
Things are produced from skill if the form of them is in the mind.
Clarification
Skill is Greek 'techné'
Gist of Idea
Things are produced from skill if the form of them is in the mind
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1032a33)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.190
A Reaction
This resembles the legal notion of 'mens rea', the conscious intention to commit the deed.
544 | Experience knows particulars, but only skill knows universals [Aristotle] |
546 | It takes skill to know causes, not experience [Aristotle] |
10950 | Things are produced from skill if the form of them is in the mind [Aristotle] |
12628 | Knowing that must come before knowing how [Fodor] |
9326 | Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how [Gulick] |
4093 | Many cases of knowing how can be expressed in propositional terms (like how to get somewhere) [Crane] |
7630 | Ryle's dichotomy between knowing how and knowing that is too simplistic [Maund] |