Declarative knowledge
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Wikipedia is a monument to know-that — humanity's stated facts endlessly cross-referenced and still incomplete
Explicit knowledge travels: one good document can hand ten thousand strangers what one expert spent a decade learning
Propositional knowledge is the kind you can hand over in a single sentence; everything else you know resists that
Semantic memory fades fast: facts crammed for the exam evaporate within months while you never forget how to swim
You can ace the driving theory test and still fail the road test — declarative knowledge doesn't transfer into skill on its own
Only declarative knowledge can be 'wrong' — you cannot be wrong about how to ride a bike; just bad at it
Knowing a language's grammar rules and stringing sentences together under pressure are different faculties
Knowing that Paris is the capital of France and knowing how to get around Paris are different possessions: know-that vs know-how
Gettier cases: you can hold a true belief with solid justification and philosophers still argue it isn't knowledge
A chess player who can recite thousands of opening lines still has to find every move on the clock
Rote memorization vs real understanding: reciting a definition word-for-word does not mean you can use it
What schools mostly test is declarative — dates and definitions and formulas — while the competencies that matter most never reach the answer sheet
Legal jargon and medical shorthand and pilot phraseology — every field builds compressed vocabulary for what outsiders cannot parse
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