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Full Idea
Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how.
Gist of Idea
Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how
Source
Robert van Gulick (Mirror Mirror - Is That All? [2006], §II)
Book Ref
'Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness', ed/tr. Kriegel,U /Williford,K [MIT 2006], p.21
A Reaction
This thought could rather rapidly revive the discredited notion of knowing-how. I think it might slot into an account of the mind in terms of levels, so that my internalist view of knowledge emerges at higher levels, built on more basic responses.
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] |