 Of course, the man himself is in a special position to grasp this actually-existing order among the ways of describing what he’s doing. Anscombe compared this knowledge to the knowledge had by a man who directs a project like the erection of a building simply by giving orders for every little thing that anyone does, a project which he can’t see and gets no reports on. If all goes well, the director knows what’s done, and his knowledge is practical knowledge. His practical knowledge is his grasping the order of the events that unfold. Practical knowledge, then, isn’t fundamentally knowledge of certain atomic actions, e.g. thinking of a number, blinking. It’s knowledge of the entire means-end order among the things one does, an order which of course includes the actions constituting it. The man in the earlier example can say “I’m moving my arm up and down” because he can say “I’m moving my arm up and down because I’m pumping water”.