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Maps what kind of knowing is actually in play for a claim or question. Distinguishes a priori from a posteriori knowledge; propositional (knowing that) from procedural (knowing how) from acquaintance (knowing of); and knowledge sourced from perception, inference, testimony, intuition, or memory. Use when you say 'what kind of claim is this', 'is this something we can reason our way to or do we need evidence', 'they're treating this as obvious but I don't think it is', 'is this really an empirical question', or when you need to assess what standards of justification apply before testing whether a claim is true.

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# Epistemology: Knowledge Types

Before you can test whether a claim is justified, you need to know what kind of claim it is — because different kinds of knowing have different justification standards, different failure modes, and different evidentiary requirements. Mixing up knowledge types is a recurring source of bad reasoning: treating empirical claims as if they're matters of pure logic, treating intuitions as if they're perceptions, treating testimony as if it's first-hand knowledge.

This skill classifies the kind of knowing in play, then draws out what that classification implies for how the claim can be established or challenged.

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## Your Process

**Step 1: Extract the Claim**
State the claim being made as precisely as possible. Strip away rhetorical packaging. What exactly is being asserted?

**Framing check:** Confirm the specific claim before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual claim being analyzed and the context in which it is being made — in one sentence, then use `AskUserQuestion`:
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