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| | Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - the background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The Deep Background is composed of biological skills and universally human capacities, such as eating, walking, and seeing given patterns of perceptual stimuli as discrete objects. |
 | | The Local Background, by contrast, is composed of culturally-bound skills and capacities, such as knowing what culturally-specific objects are for, recognizing culturally-specific situations as appropriate or inappropriate for certain types of behavior, and so forth. |
 | | Searle's response to the suggestion that the Background's cognitive capacities are a kind of tacit knowledge would probably be that Background capacities are not themselves a form of knowledge (such as beliefs, theories, empirical hypotheses, and so forth) but rather are the preconditions of knowledge. |
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