“The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.”
Author
Michael Polanyi
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“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”
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