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Single Idea 4093

[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 6. Knowing How ]

Full Idea

There are plenty of cases of knowing how to do something, where that knowledge can also be expressed - without remainder, as it were - in propositional terms (such as knowing how to get to the Albert Hall).

Gist of Idea

Many cases of knowing how can be expressed in propositional terms (like how to get somewhere)

Source

Tim Crane (Elements of Mind [2001], 3.28)

Book Ref

Crane,Tim: 'Elements of Mind' [OUP 2001], p.95


A Reaction

Presumably all knowing how could be expressed propositionally by God.


The 7 ideas with the same theme [having a skill which may be inarticulate]:

Experience knows particulars, but only skill knows universals [Aristotle]
It takes skill to know causes, not experience [Aristotle]
Things are produced from skill if the form of them is in the mind [Aristotle]
Knowing that must come before knowing how [Fodor]
Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how [Gulick]
Many cases of knowing how can be expressed in propositional terms (like how to get somewhere) [Crane]
Ryle's dichotomy between knowing how and knowing that is too simplistic [Maund]