It’s not a very firm distinction, but techne is knowledge from doing, so I would consider playing with a hammer a way to develop techne. It certainly overlaps with the concept of gnosis, which is a bit more general and includes knowledge from direct experience that doesn’t involve “doing”, like the kind of knowledge you gain from observing. But the act of observing is a kind of thing you do, so as you see it’s fuzzy, but generally I think of techne as that which involves your body moving.
Could you clarify the distinction between techne and gnosis? Is it something like playing around with a hammer and seeing how it works?
It’s not a very firm distinction, but techne is knowledge from doing, so I would consider playing with a hammer a way to develop techne. It certainly overlaps with the concept of gnosis, which is a bit more general and includes knowledge from direct experience that doesn’t involve “doing”, like the kind of knowledge you gain from observing. But the act of observing is a kind of thing you do, so as you see it’s fuzzy, but generally I think of techne as that which involves your body moving.