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The Conceptual Distinction between Propositional and Skillful Knowing

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Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology

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A conceptual analysis of the distinction between propositional and skillful knowing is presented, in terms of the technical language of propositional attitude theory. The two types of knowing are shown to differ in important ways with respect to such features as content, objective correlate, Intentional modality, mode of representation, direction of fit, and associated boundary conditions.

This work was supported by a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship and by a Canada Research Fellowship (Award 455-87-0170) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I am grateful for the helpful commentary of Charles Bourassa, Don Kuiken, Leo Mos, and William Rozeboom. An expanded treatment of the ideas in this chapter is to appear in The Journal of Intelligent Systems.

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  1. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    William E. Smythe

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  1. Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, T6G 2E9

    Wm J. Baker  & Leendert P. Mos  & 

  2. Department of Psychology, The Free University, 1007, MC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Hans V. Rappard

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4

    Henderikus J. Stam

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Smythe, W.E. (1988). The Conceptual Distinction between Propositional and Skillful Knowing. In: Baker, W.J., Mos, L.P., Rappard, H.V., Stam, H.J. (eds) Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3902-4_16

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