Knowing Your Ability.
In this article, we present an attempt to reconcile intellectualism and the anti-intellectualist ability account of knowledge-how by reducing 'S knows how to F' to, roughly speaking, 'S knows that she has the ability to F demonstrated by a concrete way w.' More precisely, 'S has a certain ability' i...
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