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2015-06-02

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Opacity, know-how states, and their content

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The main goal of this paper is to defend the thesis that the content of know-how states is an accuracy assessable type of nonconceptual content. My argument proceeds in two stages. I argue, first, that the intellectualist distinction between types of ways of grasping the same kind of content is uninformative unless it is tied in with a distinction between kinds of contents. Second, I consider and reject the objection that, if the content of know-how states is non-conceptual, it will be mysterious why attributions of knowing how create opaque contexts. I show that the objection conflates two distinct issues: the nature of the content of know-how states and the semantic evaluability of know-how ascriptions.

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Teoria del coneixement, Filosofia de la ment

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Theory of knowledge, Philosophy of mind

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TORIBIO MATEAS, Josefa. Opacity, know-how states, and their content. Disputatio. 2015. Vol. 7, num. 40, pags. 61-83. ISSN 0873-626X. [consulted: 11 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/161648

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