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Full Idea
There is a convincing claim that we need to leave behind Ryle's dichotomy between knowing how and knowing that as being too simplistic.
Gist of Idea
Ryle's dichotomy between knowing how and knowing that is too simplistic
Source
Barry Maund (Perception [2003], Ch. 2)
Book Ref
Maund,Barry: 'Perception' [Acumen 2003], p.29
A Reaction
[John Campbell is mentioned as source of this idea] I find this proposal immediately appealing. I was taught that riding a bicycle shows the division, as hardly anyone knows the theory, but I am sure children need some propositional information.
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] |