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    Knowledge-that requires not merely storing true information but grasping the truth-making relation between proposition and fact, as Ryle's distinction between knowing-that and knowing-how implies.

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    Knowledge-that(as a type of knowledge being evaluated)
    Knowledge expressed as factual propositions or statements (like 'I know that Paris is the capital of France'), as opposed to practical skills or experiential knowledge.
    Ryle, Gilbert(the statement refers to his theory)
    A 20th-century British philosopher who argued that knowing how to do something (like riding a bike) is completely different from knowing facts about something (like knowing the history of bikes).
    fact(Armstrong/Mellor's account of facts as truth-makers)
    A fundamental entity consisting in objects, properties and relations bound together, posited to serve as truth-maker for contingent atomic predications
    knowing-how(what Ryle argues cannot be fully explained as propositions)
    The practical skill of being able to do something (like riding a bike or playing piano), as opposed to knowing facts about something.

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.
    truth-making relation(Discussion of the identity theory versus correspondence theory of truth)
    A relation originating in a worldly fact (or similar) and having as its other relatum either a true sentence or a proposition/thought.

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