Ryle's Regress

— A Concept of Mind, interactively undone —

I. Choose a Skill

Name a familiar know-how: tying shoelaces, cooking an egg, parallel parking, holding a conversation.

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II. The Regress

Choose a skill above to begin the inquiry.

III. The Counterargument

Stanley & Williamson (2001) argue knowing-how is knowing-that p — but under a practical mode of presentation. The regress dissolves, they claim, because applying knowledge needn't require further propositions; it requires the right mode of grasping them.

Wittgenstein lurks: no rule specifies its own application. Does the mode-of-presentation move help, or just rename the problem?

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