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Knowing How vs . Knowing That

More than forty years after Gilbert Ryle published his paper on "Knowing How and Knowing That" in 1945, 1 the problem of practical knowledge has still failed to establish for itself a secure position in the field of problems dealt with by analytic philosophers. Thus even today it can safely be asserted that it is discursive or theoretical knowledge, knowledge linguistically expressed, above all...

Emancipatory knowing: Hidden necessity

Background & Aim: Knowledge patterns in nursing are key foundation elements for the development of knowledge and practice. Carper identified four fundamental knowledge patterns; empirical, personal, ethical and aesthetic. Chain and Kramer added the pattern of emancipatory knowledge to Carperchr('39')s patterns. The pattern of emancipatory knowledge in nursing has been neglected. The aim of this...

Knowing Me, Knowing You: Networks of Cooperation

Knowing Whether

Knowing whether a proposition is true means knowing that it is true or knowing that it is false. In this paper, we study logics with a modal operator Kw for knowing whether but without a modal operator K for knowing that. This logic is not a normal modal logic, because we do not have Kw(φ → ψ) → (Kwφ → Kwψ). Knowing whether logic cannot define many common frame properties, and its expressive po...

Knowing Yourself

The paper discusses the concept of energy, its transformation, and transmission. Any physical object, event, word, sound, thought or even money is seen as a bundle of energy. This is a fictional story suggesting direction of technological/scientific development in the future.