Published Dec 20, 2011



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Gregor Damschen

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Abstract

Is knowledge-how a hidden knowledge-that, and therefore also a relation between an epistemic subject and a proposition? What is the connection between knowledgehow and knowledge-that? I will deal with both questions in the course of my paper. In the first part, I argue that the term ‘knowledge-how’ is an ambiguous term in a semantic pragmatic sense, blending two distinct meanings: ‘knowledgehow’ in the sense of knowledge-that, and ‘knowledge-how’ in the sense of an ability. In the second part of my paper, I construe five alternative ways of correlating knowledge-that and knowledge-how in the sense of an ability. I will argue in favour of one of them. I will show that knowledge-how is not a species of knowledge-that but rather that knowledge-that is a species of knowledge-how. More specifically, dispositional knowledge-how is at the core of propositional knowledgethat and accordingly should be understood to be at the center of epistemology.

Keywords

dispositional knowledge-how, propositional knowledge-that, ability, practical knowledge, epistemologysaber-cómo disposicional, saber-que proposicional, habilidad, saber práctico, epistemología

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Damschen, G. (2011). Dispositional Knowledge-how vs. Propositional Knowledge-that. Universitas Philosophica, 28(57). Retrieved from https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/vniphilosophica/article/view/11007
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