Editing Techne (section)

{{Short description|Philosophical term referring to "making" or "doing"}}
{{Other uses}}
In [[Ancient Greek philosophy]], '''techne''' ({{Langx|el|{{wikt-lang|en|τέχνη}}|tékhnē|art, skill, craft}}; {{IPA|grc|tékʰnɛː|lang|link=yes}}, {{IPA|el|ˈtexni|label=[[Modern Greek]]:|Ell-Techni.ogg}}) is a philosophical concept that refers to making or doing.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Oxford companion to philosophy |date=1995 |publisher=Oxford Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-19-866132-0 |editor-last=Honderich |editor-first=Ted |location=Oxford}}</ref> Today, while the [[Ancient Greek]] definition of techne is similar to the modern definition and use of "[[Procedural knowledge|practical knowledge]]",<ref>{{Cite book |author-link=Thomas Kjeller Johansen|last=Johansen |first=Thomas Kjeller |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jRgXEAAAQBAJ&dq=related:poXP40MywFkJ:scholar.google.com/&pg=PR7 |title=Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Concept of Technê |date=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-62415-2 |language=en}}</ref> techne can include various fields such as [[mathematics]], [[geometry]],{{Sfn|Angier|2010|p=33}}{{Sfn|Richter|Johnson|2017|p=374}} [[medicine]], [[shoemaking]], [[rhetoric]], [[philosophy]], [[music]], and [[astronomy]].{{Sfn|Richter|Johnson|2017|p=374}}

One of the definitions of techne led by Aristotle, for example, is "a state involving true [[reason]] concerned with production".{{Sfn|Cohoe|2022|p=3}}