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    It is not the case that Ryle's distinction between knowing-that and knowing-how shows that much epistemic progress occurs through habituated, attention-independent competence.

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    • 1.Habituated competence may depend on tacit knowing-that; the distinction doesn't prove know-how is epistemic progress rather than mere behavioral conditioning.
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    • 2.Attention-independence doesn't establish epistemic status; procedural automaticity in false beliefs (superstitions) progresses skill without advancing knowledge.
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    • 3.Ryle's distinction conflates epistemology with psychology; showing competence operates automatically doesn't establish it as a separate form of knowledge-production.
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    • 1.Expert performance (chess, surgery, athletics) demonstrates competence that operates below conscious attention, suggesting know-how constitutes genuine epistemic progress.
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    • 2.Habituated skills resist propositional articulation yet enable successful navigation of complex environments, indicating knowledge beyond knowing-that.
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    • 3.The acquisition of fluency requires repeated practice that gradually reduces cognitive load, showing progress through embodied competence rather than belief accumulation.
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