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"Knowledge how" versus "Knowledge about."

When one is driving a car, one doesn't say to oneself "Wow, I am driving a car." That doesn't mean one can't have that knowledge, it just doesn't come up -- unless something breaks, and one can't drive the car and is trying to figure out why and communicate it.

Knowledge-how is implicit in all of the universe. Knowledge-about might be only possible with language. All speculation...



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