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Originally Posted by TimMason
A quick aside on kinds of knowledge. Psychologists distinguish between two kinds of knowledge: declarative and performative. This first is made known through language, the second through performance. One of the questions that they wonder about is the relationship between the two. Some thing that, in the end, all human knowledge is declarative, others say that, no, you can learn without spelling out the rules, through guided performance.
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I wonder how this relates to what has become known as learning styles. Declarative knowledge seems closely tied with learning through hearing and thinking, while performative knowledge appear more closely tied with learning through doing and perhaps seeing.
To use myself as example, I've always needed 'performance' of some kind to take in knowledge.
*I know there's different approaches to learning, my examples was just from one that takes four different styles into account.
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Originally Posted by TGS
It may be that the notion of "image schemas" is useful here. Image schemas are the basic elements structuring of the world - the basic way in which we carve the world up. For example, force-dynamic schemas structure our experience of the relationship between events. The explanatory advantage of a image schemas is that they are taken to be universal and pre-linguistic and, as such, there is no reason why non-linguistic animals such as macaques might not deploy them, and thus might well be able to represent some kind of declarative knowledge, (without of course being able to declare it).
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That was an interesting point. As far as I understand it (and you), it will make one able to 'side-step' the more dualistic understanding of declarative and performative knowledge.