And it is also what we are doing by electing people to represent us in government even when they don't exercise knowledge of health and how to best ensure the prosperity of individuals.
To exercise knowledge-how, must an act be preceded by some implicit or explicit consideration of a fact about how to do it?
(For a helpful discussion of the distinction between what knowledge-how is and what it is to exercise knowledge-how, and how the distinction manifests itself in both intellectualist and anti-intellectualist views, see Bengson and Moffett 2012b).
Knowledge-how and knowledge-that are distinct kinds; to know how to do something is not just to know the right facts about how to do it, and to exercise knowledge-how you need not first implicitly or explicitly consider a fact about how to do it.
Table 1 Exercise types, learning, and benefit Exercise type Learning Benefit Strategic exercise Knowledge of the effects Concepts Drill Copying Routines Repetitive skills Collaboration exercise Flexibility Cross-organization behavior Resource optimization Sources Babu et al. (1997), Berlin and Carlström (2008, 2011).
Whether he was making a model of the moon, building a telescope or laying out the plan of a church, he was exercising his knowledge of the classics, his wide scholarship and his invention.
In hearing the Chaconne in my mind, I am exercising my knowledge of how the piece goes; I am, in a certain way, realizing what I would be hearing if it were really being played, in the same way that the forger, in forging a cheque, is realizing how it would be signed if the cheque were genuine.
I have the freedom to leap from my 2nd story office, but I don't have the freedom to fly from it, and exercising that knowledge is to become aware of what it means to be human.
In an intellectual exercise, knowledge wins.
The intervention also improved self-reported diet and exercise knowledge, practices, and behaviors (23).
