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plenty of mechanics or other professions get by using "mechanic" or "engineering" know how vs know what that you're describing group B to be.

let's look at empirical evidence: old building - do you think masons back then understood compression forces ? but those buildings still stand. what they knew was simply a matter of probability that doing a->b->c results in this predictable outcome based on what they had done or what others had done.

scientism is not engineering. scientism is knowing why things work. engineering is knowing how things work or don't work.




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