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Originally Posted by TimMason
I was wondering what *knowledge* is, and how it's stored, and how it's retrieved. And even if we do things *by ourselves*, that doesn't mean there is no linguistic account - remember the child who talks her doll through a tea party or putting her shoes on. When I do something for the first time - play a new piece of music on the piano, for example, I think I talk myself through it. As I get better, there's less vocalization, and in the end, I can do it without even looking at the marks on the page.
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Is what you are asking more to do with the question of what thought is rather than what knowledge is? What I mean is that some acquisition, practice and exercise of knowledge seems to be accompanied by thought of which we are, more or less, conscious, and when we are conscious of this thought it sometimes seems to have something like linguistic content.