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One further common use of the verb ‘to know’ is in statements claiming to know how to do something; for example, ‘I know how to swim’, ‘He knows how to fly an aeroplane.’ In recent years it is Gilbert Ryle who has commented most on this theme.1
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G. Ryle, ‘Knowing How and Knowing That’ in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. XLVI, 1946 pp.1–16 and
The Concept of Mind (London: Hutchinson’s University Library, 1949) ch. 2.
R. J. Ackerman sees the analysis of knowing how as useful for devising teaching methods but as having little other philosophical interest. Apart from teaching methods ‘only trivialities seem forthcoming’. Belief and Knowledge (London: Macmillan, 1973) p.61.
Cf. D.W. Hamlyn, The Theory of Knowledge (London: Macmillan, 1970) pp.103ff.
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Haymes, B. (1988). Knowing How and Knowing That. In: The Concept of the Knowledge of God. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19066-9_7
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