Much of last century's progress in the hard sciences depended on technology and the creation of research communities with critical mass. But for psychology and philosophy of mind, all crucial ideas have probably been discovered (and often lost again) thousands of years ago.
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being superglib, that’s “knowing how”, but I think I get what you’re gesturing at over and above that, if only at the “knowing of” level
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At least for myself, I discovered the 3rd layer quite late. I was happy when I knew how to build a radio and had a plausible explanation why it worked, but it didn't occur to me that Marconi must have had a deep hypothesis about why this would possibly work before anyone tried it
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