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    Challenges→The fugitive can surprise the pursuer only if it is possible for the fugitive to surprise himself.

    Ryle's distinction between knowing-how and knowing-that implies that the fugitive's procedural knowledge of his own choice-making need not be propositionally replicable by the pursuer.

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    Knowing-that(The type of knowledge Stanley and Williamson claim is connected to knowing how)
    Factual knowledge about something being true—like knowing that Paris is the capital of France.
    Procedural knowledge(contrasting with abstract knowledge)
    Knowledge about how to *do* something (like riding a bike or flying a plane), as opposed to knowledge about facts or theories.
    Ryle(philosopher whose arguments are being critiqued)
    Gilbert Ryle was a 20th-century British philosopher who made arguments about the mind and how rules work.
    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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    (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.
    propositionally replicable(whether knowledge can be put into words that someone else could grasp)
    Able to be expressed and communicated as clear statements or claims that someone else could understand and repeat.

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