What our Rylean Ancestors Knew: More on Knowing How and Knowing That

In their recent article "Knowing How,�1 Jason Stanley and
Timothy Williamson deny that there is a fundamental
distinction between knowing-how and knowing-that,
claiming instead that knowledge-how is rather a form of
knowledge-that. I contend that Stanley and Williamson are
incorrect in rejecting the distinction between knowledgehow
and knowledge-that. Our Rylean ancestors, and Ryle
himself, had a genuine insight in recognizing knowing-how
and knowing-that as distinct phenomena. This discussion
will be divided into two sections. In section 1, I discuss
some implications of what I take to be our naïve notion of
knowing-that. In section 2, I turn to a defense of Ryle"s
argument in favor of the distinction between knowledgehow
and knowledge-that against the criticisms leveled
against it by Stanley and Williamson.