Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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II 142
Knowledge/Saying/Ryle: it may be that we know something without being able to say what we know. E.g. how a particular word is used, or a particular dance is danced.
HenleVsRyle: but this should not be extended to speech situations.
>Situations, >Communication.
II 143
It is by no means clear that one can always know how a word is used, even if one cannot say how it is used.
Knowledge/Saying/HareVsHenle: in language, however, this is perhaps clearer than anywhere else.
E.g. if we explain the use of an expression, we do not have to use it ourselves. Consequently, we can fully know its use in all contexts, even without being able to say how it is needed.
For example, a child may have learned the use of the word "father", and uses it correctly, but perhaps cannot tell how it is used because it has not yet learned the use of "to mean"!
>Explanation, >Use, >Meaning (Intending).
Henle confuses the ability "to decide for logical reasons" whether a statement is true with the ability to use the expression "the statement is logically true".
This is a confusion of mention/use (doing without knowledge).
Hare: anyone who does not know how to use the term "logical true" could do the former, but not the latter.
II 143
Menon/Socrates: question: what is the good? Menon: how can you look for something if you do not know what you are looking for, and when you have found it, how do you know it is what you were looking for? (Knowledge/saying).
II 151
Socrates: if we already knew, we would not have asked the first question. So philosophizing can never begin, or it can never lead to a conclusion.
Solution/Hare: the solution lies in the distinction between knowing how a dance is danced and the ability to also tell how it is danced. Before beginning the investigation, we can do the former but not the latter. We could start because we could do the former all the time.
VsMenon: you already know what the good is, i.e. you can pick it out.
>Knowledge, >Knowing how.

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