The puzzle of learning by doing and the gradability of knowledge‐how

Much of our know-how is acquired through practice: we learn how to cook by cooking, write writing, and dance dancing. As Aristotle argues, however, this kind learning puzzling, since engaging in it seems require possession the very knowledge one seeks obtain. After showing a version puzzle arises from set attractive principles, I argue that best solution hold knowledge-how comes degrees, practice person gradually learns do something. However, two standard accounts literature, intellectualism anti-intellectualism, cannot properly account for distinctive way which practice, process conceptual representations practical abilities are intimately interwoven. Drawing on Gareth Evans's work, outline an may so, use distinguish between forms explain why skill generally be learnt testimony, requires practice.