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Propositional Knowledge

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State

Propositional knowledge is knowledge that something is the case—distinct from knowing how to do something or knowing a person or place.

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Knowing that Nairobi is Kenya's capital, knowing how to ride a bike, knowing your neighbor: three different achievements.

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Epistemology's classic questions target the first kind. Keep the three separate or the debates blur.