Knowing How and Knowing That: The Presidential Address  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

"Knowing How and Knowing That: The Presidential Address" (1949) is a paper by Gilbert Ryle.

Excerpt:

For example, what truths does the clever chessplayer know which would be news to his stupid opponent ? Obviously there is no truth or set of truths of which we could say " If only the stupid player had been informed of them, he would be a clever player," or " When once he had been apprised of these truths he would play well." We can imagine a clever player generously imparting to his stupid opponent so many rules, tactical maxims, " wrinkles," etc., that he could think of no more to tell him ; his opponent might accept and memorise all of them, and be able and ready to recite them correctly on demand. Yet he might still play chess stupidly, that is, be unable intelligently to apply the maxims, etc.

See also




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Knowing How and Knowing That: The Presidential Address" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools