Gilbert Ryle quote

*"Philosophers have not done justice to the distinction which is quite
familiar to all of us between knowing that something is the case and
knowing how to do things. In their theories of knowledge they concentrate
on the discovery of truths or facts, and they either ignore the discovery
of ways and methods of doing things or else they try to reduce it to the
discovery of facts. They assume that intelligence equates with the
contemplation of propositions and is exhausted in this contemplation." *

*-- *Gilbert Ryle "Knowing How and Knowing That", Aristotelian Society
Presidential Address, 1945

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4544405?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers/ryle/Ryle_KnowHow.pdf

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