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Full Idea
Experience is the knowledge of particulars and skill that of universals.
Clarification
'Skill' is the Greek word 'techné'
Gist of Idea
Experience knows particulars, but only skill knows universals
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981a14)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.5
| 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] |