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Single Idea 546

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

Full Idea

The skilled know the cause, whereas the experienced do not.

Clarification

'Skill' is the Greek word 'techné'

Gist of Idea

It takes skill to know causes, not experience

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981a29)

Book Ref

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.5


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]