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Practising to Know: Practicalism and Confucian Philosophy.
- Source :
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Philosophy . Jul2012, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p375-393. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- For a while now, there has been much conceptual discussion about the respective natures of knowledge-that and knowledge-how, along with the intellectualist idea that knowledge-how is really a kind of knowledge-that. Gilbert Ryle put in place most of the terms that have so far been distinctive of that debate, when he argued for knowledge-how's conceptual distinctness from knowledge-that. But maybe those terms should be supplemented, expanding the debate. In that spirit, the conceptual option of practicalism has recently entered the fray. Practicalism conceives anew the nature of knowledge-that, as being a kind of knowledge-how. In this paper we enlarge upon this conceptual suggestion. We draw from an ancient Chinese text, the Analects of Confucius, explaining how it lends some support to practicalism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *CONFUCIAN philosophy
*ARGUMENT
*THEORY of knowledge
*APPLIED ethics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00318191
- Volume :
- 87
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Philosophy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 76608072
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819112000289