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So far I have established the following.
- i.
- That, pace Dummett, there are three categories for
classification of what might be called `skills.'
- ii.
- That of these three, only two (C2 and C3) are properly described as
concerning rule-governed behaviors.
- iii.
- That one of these two categories (C2) does not require that
practitioners have any theoretical knowledge, either explicit or
implicit, of the rules or criteria.
- A corollary of this is that analogues of Dummett's M4 and M5 do
not characterize skills in general. While C3 skills may satisfy M4 and
M5, or analogues of them, along with the proposed condition 4 (§3.3),
C2 skills do not
- iv.
- That there is at least one member of C2, viz., controlled
counting.
In the next section I argue that along with controlled
counting, language belongs in C2.
2005-01-31