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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] |