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Personal Knowledge

Michael Polanyi

Polanyi's case for the indispensability of tacit knowledge in science and everyday skill. We know more than we can tell; the explicit account always rides on a larger implicit one.

In Res

Any system that tries to capture only the articulable will miss the larger part. A useful corrective for any tool — Res included — that records.

Subjects

  • philosophy of science
  • tacit knowledge
  • epistemology
  • skill

Editions

  • 1962

    Paperback

    University of Chicago Press· English· 464 pp.

    ISBN-13 9780226672885