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know how

Epistemically praiseworthy, non-propositional procedural elements of a cognitive system thought to underlie abilities where performance of a task is consistently better than chance. See knowledge, epistemology.
<Discussion> <References> Charles Wallis

knowledge

Justified true belief (until the introduction of the Gettier problem). See epistemology.
<Discussion> <References> P. Mandik

knowledge argument

An argument from Frank Jackson (1982) purporting to show that physicalism is false on the ground that there exist facts that cannot be known solely in virtue of knowing all the physical facts. See dualism, consciousness.
<Discussion> <References> Adam Vinueza

knowledge, tacit

Knowledge that enters into the production of behaviors and/or the constitution of mental states but is not ordinarily accessible to consciousness. See also cognize, knowledge, implicit memory, Background, rules.
<Discussion> <References> Daniel Barbiero

knowledge under entailment, principle of closure of

If S knows p, and p entails q, then S knows q. See Cartesian skepticism.
<Discussion> < References> P. Mandik

knowledge under known entailment, principle of closure of

If S knows p, and S knows that p entails q, then S knows q. See Cartesian skepticism.
<Discussion> < References> P. Mandik

KK-thesis

If S knows p, then S knows that S knows p.
<Discussion> < References> P. Mandik