Acting on knowledge-how
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Abstract The paper explains how to integrate the knowledge-first approach epistemology with intellectualist thesis that knowing-how is a kind of knowing-that, emphasis on their role in practical reasoning. One component this integration belief-based account desire.
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عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0039-7857', '1573-0964']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03677-z