Techne was craft knowledge: learning to use tools and methods to create something.
Episteme
was scientific knowledge: uncovering the laws of nature and other
inviolable facts, that, however poorly understood they might be at the
moment, “cannot be other than they are.”
Phronesis was akin to
ethical judgment: the perspective-taking and wisdom required to make
decisions when competing values are in play — when the answer is not
absolute, multiple options are possible, and things can be other than what they are.
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